A man accused of fatally shooting a police officer in the town of Eastman in the US state of Georgia has been arrested.
The Telfair County Sheriff's Office said in a statement on its website on Monday that 24-year-old Royheem Delshawn Deeds was in custody.
The website of the Nassau County Sheriff's Office in Florida says Deeds was booked into jail just before 3am on Monday.
Authorities say Deeds killed Eastman Patrol Officer Tim Smith about 9.30pm on Saturday in a residential area of that city, which is about 60 miles southeast of Macon.
Smith was white, and Deeds is black.
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Authorities say the 31-year-old Smith was responding to a suspicious person call when he encountered Deeds, exited his patrol car and was shot.
Smith had been with the Eastman Police Department since 2011 and was a father of three.
