Overview
- Authorities identified the deceased as Mark Dennis Whibbey Jr., 27, of Seabrook, South Carolina.
- Police responded around 1:30 p.m. to 911 reports of a man waving a firearm and a separate call about shoplifting with a gun near Martin Luther King Jr. Drive and Bay Street.
- Officers issued repeated commands to drop the weapon and a Taser deployment failed, according to the GBI.
- Surveillance video shows Whibbey pacing with a gun, then moving toward civilians and reaching toward his rear waistband before five officers fired, striking him multiple times.
- Medical aid was provided and he was pronounced dead at the scene; an autopsy is pending, the involved officers are on paid leave, no officers were injured, and investigators are seeking tips.