WRIGHTSVILLE, Ga. — A Georgia firefighter is recovering after he was ambushed and severely injured in a sword attack outside a gas station, authorities said.

The incident occurred around midnight on Oct. 27 outside the SideTrack convenience store on East College Street. Wrightsville Police Officer Jay Hood was speaking with his friend, Firefighter Chad Wombles, when a man identified as Diamond Daspin Seltzer, 32, approached them with a sword and began swinging it without warning, according to a GoFundMe created for Wombles .

Wrightsville Police said the attack posed “an immediate and imminent threat” to both men. In defense of himself and Wombles, Officer Hood opened fire, striking the assailant multiple times. Seltzer was taken to a hospital in Dublin, where he later died, a

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