Wrightsville Officer Fatally Shoots Attacker Who Injured Firefighter

A Wrightsville police officer shot and killed 32-year-old Diamond Daspin Seltzer after Seltzer suddenly attacked a firefighter with a large bladed weapon just after midnight outside the Sidetrack convenience store, officials said. The attacker—described variously as wielding a wakizashi/samurai sword or a machete—approached the officer and firefighter and began swinging the blade, cutting the firefighter’s arms and causing severe but nonfatal injuries. Fearing for the firefighter’s life and his own, the officer fired multiple times to stop the threat; Seltzer was taken to Fairview Park Hospital and later pronounced dead. The officer was not injured. The Georgia Bureau of Investigation has taken the lead on the active investigation, will send Seltzer’s body to the GBI Medical Examiner’s Office for an autopsy, and will turn the case over to the Dublin Judicial Circuit district attorney for review. Authorities have not disclosed a motive.