At Rest

Deadly force
Deputies stopped a other driven by a woman at 2:45 a.m. in which Johnny Ray Kirk and another man, Michael Allen Lawson, were riding as passengers. After deputies stopped the car, Kirk jumped out of the passenger seat and immediately fired toward two ECSO deputies who had arrived in two cruisers. The deputies shot and killed him. Kirk was wanted for allegedly kidnapping two 16-year-old girls in Walton County and murdering an 80-year-old man.
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