UPSON S.O. FOUND A BODY TUESDAY IN A BARN

UPSON COUNTY SHERIFF DAN KILGORE CALLED IT A SAD ENDING TO A TRAGIC STORY, A YOUNG UPSON COUNTY MAN WAS FOUND HANGED IN A BARN OFF DEL RAY ROAD, TUESDAY AT LUNCHTIME, AFTER A TWO DAY SEARCH FOR HIM.

ACCORDING TO SHERIFF KILGORE, TREY GILBERT, AGE 22 HAD A PISTOL AND WAS THREATENING SUCIDE WHEN DEPUTIES RESPONDED OFF EAST COUNTY ROAD SUNDAY NIGHT.

GILBERT STARTED WALKING WHEN HIS CAR BROKE DOWN AND THOMASTON POLICE JOINED THE S.O. TO TRACK GILBERT TO BURNETTE ROAD.

GILBERT SUDDENLY TURNED AND POINTED A PISTOL AT A POLICE OFFICER WHO FIRED AT HIM AND MISSED.

THEN A DEPUTY SHOT GILBERT TWICE IN THE BACK WITH FOAM RUBBER BULLETS THAT SPUN HIM AROUND—AND HE FLED INTO THE WOODS. A GSP COPTER WITH THERMO IMAGING TRACKED HIM—THEN LOST HIM.

THE SEARCH CONTINUED INTO TUESDAY—WHEN LAWMEN ON THE GROUND FOUND HIS BODY IN THE BARN.

SHERIFF KILGORE THANKED THOMASTON PD, , GA. DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS FOR THEIR BLOODHOUNDS, SPALDING S.O. AND GSP FOR THEIR COPTERS.

THOMASTON POLICE OFFICER BRUCE GILBERT SUFFERED A BROKEN ANKLE SUNDAY NIGHT WHEN HE STEPPED OUT OF A MOVING S.O. SUV SHADOWING GILBERT AND AND WAS RUN OVER. POLICE CHIEF MIKE RICHARDSON SAID OFFICER GILBERT UNDERWENT SURGERY AT MACON MEDICAL CENTER AND WILL BE OUT OF ACTION FOR SEVERAL MONTHS.