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Rome Man Killed as Trooper Wounded in Roadside Shooting
In Rome Georgia a prominent local businessman Fred Brown 56 owner of Brown Transfer Co and a Polk county liquor store is killed after a roadside confrontation with state troopers. Trooper Paul Smith is seriously wounded by shotgun fire but shows signs of recovery. Sheriff Mark Horton reports four trooper shots and Brown's body taken to a funeral home.
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Rome
Fred Brown
Brown Transfer Co
Floyd County
Polk County
Paul Smith
McCall Hospital
Brown
Mark Hortom
Horton
H. F. Culberson
Jim Haralson
Smith
Rome-Cedartown
Rome-Cave Springs
Cartersville
Culberson
Haralson