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Troopers shoot bus tires to stop fleeing suspect
Man accused of stealing several grills from Dollar General Market in Lyons
W Martin
Lewis Dean Martin
Georgia state troopers in Metter stopped a fleeing shoplifting suspect Wednesday by shooting out the tires of the school bus he was driving. Toombs County sheriff's spokespersons told the Statesboro Herald on Wednesday evening that the driver's identity would not be released until Thursday morning, but Savannah TV station WTOC reported the man as being Lewis Dean Martin, 59, of Eustis, Florida. Martin fled from Toombs County sheriff's deputies and Lyons police after being seen loading several grills from the Dollar General Market in Lyons into the bus, according to a post on the Toombs County Sheriff's Office Facebook page.
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