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GA Probation Officer Shot During Training
By chronicle.augusta.com/
Published: 09/02/2011

JACKSON, GA. — A probation officer has been killed in a training accident at a prison in Butts County.

A Georgia Department of Corrections spokeswoman said the officer was killed Wednesday at the Georgia Diagnostic and Classification Prison’s training facility in Jackson when a weapon discharged accidentally during a training exercise.

The officer was identified Thursday afternoon as 24-year-old probation officer Tiffany Bishop.

Bishop, who worked in the Rome Probation Office, had been with the department since March. An autopsy will be conducted today.

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