On Oct. 28, 2013, a Statesboro police officer and a city code enforcement officer went to the home of George Pryor to remove a van that neighbors said had sat idle in the yard next to his house "for years." Witnesses told the Statesboro Herald that on that Oct. 28 day, after he was served with papers to remove the van, Pryor went inside his Rackley Street home in west Statesboro, returned with a gun and shot at the officers. The Statesboro police officer returned fire.