A Georgia sheriff's deputy shot and killed a man who he found burglarizing his home, GBI says

• A Georgia deputy shot and killed a man who was breaking into his home, the Georgia Bureau of Investigation said.
• The deputy was alerted to the intruder by his Ring camera, officials said.

A Georgia sheriff's deputy shot and killed man Saturday who he caught breaking into his Atlanta home, officials said Sunday.

According to the Georgia Bureau of Investigation (GBI), the Fulton County sheriff's deputy, whose identity has not been made public, said he was driving home from work when he received a notification from a Ring home security camera that showed a man breaking into his residence just before midnight Saturday.

When the deputy arrived, he saw the man walking away with items from his home. The deputy, who was dressed in his uniform, according to the GBI, followed the man down a gravel road in his personal vehicle.

"The man stepped off the road into some woods as the deputy approached. The deputy got out of his car and found the man in the woods," the GBI said. "While in the woods, the deputy and man had an altercation and during this time, the deputy shot the man."

Officials from the Atlanta Police Department responded to the scene and discovered the deputy performing CPR on the man, who later died at a local hospital, according to the agency. The identity of the deceased has not been publicly released.

The back door of the deputy's home was found to have been kicked in, and items from his home were found in the woods. The GBI said it was conducting an investigation into the incident. After, it will send its findings to the Fulton County District Attorney's Office, according to the GBI.