CHEROKEE COUNTY, Ga. — McCaysville Police Officer Brantley Worley is back home with his family.
Several law enforcement agencies held a procession from the Chattanooga hospital through McCaysville and Pickens County, where he serves as a part-time firefighter and paramedic, all the way to his Cherokee County home.
NewsChopper 2 was over the procession and Channel 2’s Brittany Kleinpeter was there as he made his way home.
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Late Friday night, Worley was responding to a call of a suspicious person in the north Georgia town of McCaysville when he was shot and critically injured.
He was rushed to Erlanger Baroness Hospital in Chattanooga, where he was initially admitted into the ICU. He was released on Tuesday afternoon.
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McCaysville police spent nearly all of Saturday searching for the suspect, 26-year-old Timothy Craig Ramsey. He was arrested on Saturday night after a 19-hour search.
Ramsey faces several charges, including attempted murder. He is being held in Fannin County without bond.
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