Suspect Arrested In Fatal Shooting of Officer

After a massive search, authorities finally arrested a Riverdale teen wanted in the fatal shooting of a Clayton County sheriff’s deputy.

Jonathan Bun, 17, wanted for an unrelated armed robbery, was pulled over by Richard “Rick” Jerome Daly, 55, a law enforcement veteran with 25 years of experience on Wednesday at around 3 p.m.

Deputies from the sheriff’s fugitive squad were looking to serve an arrest warrant on Bun and spotted him getting into a car near his home near Church Street, Kimbrough said.

From their unmarked car, the fugitive team members followed arrest protocol and called for a patrol car to make a traffic stop.

Daly was one of the deputies in that patrol car.

When Daly approached the passenger side of the car where Bun was seated, he allegedly stepped out of the passenger’s side and began firing his weapon, striking him.

Although Daly was wearing a ballistic vest, one bullet hit his shoulder and another, authorities believe the fatal blow, pierced his abdomen just below the body armor, severing his aorta.

“We are devastated,” Sheriff Kem Kimbrough said. “For us to have never lost an officer before this was a phenomenal streak of good luck. And good luck, like everything else, has its time and its limits.”

Kimbrough said Daly was staunchly devoted to his family.

“Several times we had discussed assignments and opportunities he could’ve taken to advance his career,” he said. “But his first thought was always his family, and we admired him and respected him for that.”

Joyce Daly, the slain officer’s mother, was still in shock over the loss of her son, the oldest of six children.

“He loved his job. ... He just wanted to help people. He took care of them, he took care of us, he just did everything for us and for me and everything.”

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