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ATLANTA (AP) — The latest on the gun battle involving police in downtown Atlanta that left one man dead (all times local):

12:20 p.m.

Atlanta police say three of the department’s officers fired their weapons during a shootout with a gunman in downtown Atlanta on Monday evening.

Atlanta police Maj. Adam Lee III says an officer was patrolling downtown shortly before 8 p.m. Monday when a Jeep was spotted driving the wrong way. When the officer attempted to stop the Jeep, it sped up, struck a shuttle bus and then a pole.

Police say at least two men were in the Jeep. Police say the driver was arrested, but the passenger ran behind the Aloft Downtown Atlanta hotel with a gun, exchanged fire with officers and was shot multiple times.

Mark Guilbeau, an investigator with the Fulton County Medical Examiner’s Office, identified the dead man as 18-year-old Darius Smith of Greer, South Carolina.

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10:45 a.m.

Authorities say a man killed in a gunfight with police officers in a busy downtown area of Atlanta was from South Carolina.

Mark Guilbeau, an investigator with the Fulton County Medical Examiner’s Office, identified him as 18-year-old Darius Smith of Greer, South Carolina.

Atlanta police Maj. Adam Lee III says an officer was patrolling downtown shortly before 8 p.m. Monday when a Jeep was spotted driving the wrong way. When the officer attempted to stop the Jeep, it sped up, struck a shuttle bus and then a pole.

The driver and passenger fled. The passenger ran behind a hotel and exchanged gunfire with officers. Witnesses say officers ducked behind cars as gunshots whizzed through the busy area, not far from several high-rise convention hotels.

Lee says Smith was found dead behind a trash bin. Lee says the driver was arrested.

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