Suspect Arrested After 2 Officers Shot During Traffic Stop in Georgia

The officers suffered non-life-threatening injuries.

ByABC News
December 13, 2016, 5:00 AM

— -- Two police officers were shot during a traffic stop in Georgia on Monday night — the third time in less than two weeks that police officers in the state have been shot in the line of duty.

Two officers from the Lavonia Police Department conducted the stop off I-85 on Monday night, according to the Georgia Bureau of Investigation.

During the stop, a person in the vehicle fired on the officers, the GBI said. Both suffered non-life-threatening injuries and were hospitalized.

The GBI identified the shooter as Khari Anthony Dashaun Gordon, 22, of Greenville, South Carolina.

He has been arrested and charged with two counts of aggravated assault on a police officer, two counts of criminal attempt to commit murder and one count of possession of a weapon during the commission of a felony.

Additional charges are pending, the GBI said.

Last week two officers were fatally shot while responding to a domestic violence call near Georgia Southwestern State University.

Early Monday, a man shot and wounded two police officers in Crawford County, Georgia, who were executing a search warrant, prompting officers to return fire, killing him.

ABC News' Darren Reynolds contributed to this report.