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A crash along Piedmont Road at Peachtree Road shut down all lanes of traffic in the Buckhead neighborhood of Atlanta on April 9, 2026. (FOX 5 Atlanta) <\/p>\n
ATLANTA – A 27-year-old Florida man was arrested after a police chase in Buckhead Thursday left two Georgia State Patrol troopers injured.\u00a0<\/p>\n
What we know:<\/p>\n
Shamir Sir Charles Ivey, 27, of Hialeah, Florida, is charged with obstruction, felony fleeing, reckless driving, and hit-and-run.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Authorities also charged him with possession of a firearm by a convicted felon and other traffic offenses following the April 9 incident.\u00a0<\/p>\n
According to the Georgia Department of Public Safety, Ivey has previous felony convictions out of Illinois.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The backstory:<\/p>\n
Troopers tried to pull over a black Range Rover on Peachtree Road around 9:35 p.m., but the driver sped off.\u00a0<\/p>\n
RELATED: GSP troopers hurt after Range Rover pursuit in Buckhead<\/a><\/p>\n The SUV ran a red light at Piedmont Road and hit another vehicle. After the wreck, the driver got out and ran.<\/p>\n Two troopers sustained minor injuries during the foot chase and were transported to a local hospital.\u00a0<\/p>\n The suspect was also taken to the hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.\u00a0<\/p>\n The driver of the car Ivey hit was treated for minor injuries at the scene.\u00a0<\/p>\n What we don’t know:<\/p>\n It is not yet clear when Ivey will make his first court appearance.<\/p>\n The Source: Information in this article comes from past FOX 5 reporting and the Georgia Department of Public Safety.\u00a0<\/p>\n Atlanta<\/a>Crime and Public Safety<\/a>News<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"article A crash along Piedmont Road at Peachtree Road shut down all lanes of traffic in the Buckhead…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":228872,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[7849,630,28,30,29,5677,115,628],"class_list":["post-228871","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-atlanta","tag-crime-publicsafety","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news","tag-ga","tag-news","tag-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228871","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=228871"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228871\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/228872"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=228871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=228871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=228871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}