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TOWNS COUNTY, GEORGIA - A confrontation between a north Georgia sheriff and a local police officer has led a local district attorney to call for a special prosecutor to investigate Towns County Sheriff Kenneth Henderson.
Tensions erupted during a December 2024 incident between Henderson and Hiawassee, Georgia, Police Officer José Carvajal, a combat veteran who served in both the U.S. Navy and Army. Carvajal was responding to a shooting out of his jurisdiction to help Deputy Austin Bradburn, who had been shot in the leg.
According to body camera video obtained exclusively by Atlanta News First Investigates, Carvajal used his military training to direct the use of a tourniquet to stop the bleeding and called in a description of the suspect.
The confrontation began when Henderson arrived at the scene and questioned Carvajal about handling the deputy’s gun.
In the chaos of providing aid, Carvajal accidentally picked up the deputy’s weapon instead of his own. Carvajal can be seen on video putting the gun back in the holster, but other emergency personnel on scene told him to take the gun.
Carvajal then secured it in his waistband once he realized it was evidence:
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