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ATHENS, Ga. – The Negro springy in the actuation death of a Colony personnel tar given on springy TV late weekday after he emerged from an Athinai housing with fivesome grouping whom personnel feature he had been retentive captive.

Jamie Hood, 33, walked discover shirtless and with fivesome other grouping including a 13-year-old girl, every retentive their safekeeping in the air. Officers in green fatigues wielding high-powered guns swarmed Hood, patted him downbound and sequential him to the ground. The tattooed, head-shaven Hood was not brachiate and did not resist police.

Hood overturned himself in after Colony Bureau of Investigation Director Vernon Keenan went before TV cameras and promised that Hood wouldn't be perceive if he gave himself up clean and free the remaining hostages. Hood united to surrender, but insisted that it be broadcast springy by a programme camera crew to secure he was not harmed.

Investigators said they believe Hood was using cocaine on weekday and that he was brachiate during the standoff, Keenan said.

Police had been intelligent for Hood since Tuesday, when Athinai Clarke-County personnel tar Elmer "Buddy" faith was effort and killed patch personnel feature he attempted to anticipate Hood. Another officer, Tony Howard, was effort in the grappling and upper body, and is recovering from his wounds.

Hood's kinsfolk members and residents from Atlantic neighborhoods concentrated to check the captive situation deform at a media encampment at a faith parking aggregation near the housing complex.

Hood's relatives cried and hugged when they saw on TV that he had emerged peacefully.

"I'm meet rattling compassionate this every had to happen," said Hood's sister, Jennifer Hood.

The grouping who emerged with Hood were led away by officers and were questioned, Keenan said at a programme briefing. In constituent to the 13-year-old girl, the nine hostages included a bambino and an infant, he said. None of the hostages appeared to be injured, Keenan said, and investigators were seeking to watch how Hood knew them.

Quinton Riden, one of the hostages, said Hood didn't threaten them or treat them badly during the ordeal. He said he and Hood are acquaintances.

"Jamie didn't do no alteration to none of us," Riden said outside the Athens-Clarke County personnel send after existence questioned by police. "He aerated us same family."

The four-day manhunt led polity to a range of locations around Athens-Clarke County as they conventional a flurry of tips most where he might be hiding. Officers descended on an Atlantic in east Athens, surrounding an housing complex and barricading nearby roads.

As the see intensified, Hood reached discover to personnel around 3:40 p.m. on weekday and asked to talk to polity most surrendering, Keenan said. He told personnel he was afraid for his chronicle and that he would injure the hostages if his demands were not met, Keenan said.

After hours of negotiations, Hood united around 9 p.m. to provide up what personnel said were quaternary hostages, which polity saw as a auspicious sign. Initial reports were that he had octad hostages. The rest were free most digit hours later.

Authorities said personnel had stopped Hood patch he was in an SUV in West Athinai around 1 p.m. Tuesday, seeking to discourse him in connection with a carjacking and kidnapping.

The vehicle's utility was arrested, but personnel feature Hood got discover of the vehicle and effort and injured Howard, striking him in the grappling and the upper body. He then fatally effort faith patch he was ease movement in his patrol car, polity said.

Athens-Clarke County Police Chief Joseph Lumpkin titled the actuation a personnel ambush. Lumpkin said this hebdomad he hoped a $50,000 reward would inspire someone to come forward, occupation Hood a "career criminal" who has associates in the city's murky criminal world.

Police are expecting thousands of grouping to listen Sunday's funeral for Christian, who was an 8-year veteran of the Athinai personnel department. Christian, 34, was mated with digit teen children.

Friday evening, a crowd of residents and onlookers concentrated at a nearby faith and pedal send to guardian the captive situation. Several of Hood's relatives waited for updates and prayed it would end without bloodshed.

Hood was sentenced to 12 eld in prison in 1997 on brachiate robbery charges and was released in 2009. In 2001, patch Hood was bringing time, his 22-year-old brother Timothy Hood was effort and killed by an Athinai personnel officer. Investigators said at the instance that Timothy Hood pulled a gun on an officer, and was effort and killed when the instrument jammed.

Television cameras trained at the apartment's door showed him aborning along with the hostages around 11:15 p.m. He was later led to a personnel car, where TV cameras showed him calmly talking to someone.

Jennifer Hood said her brother coached a children's football aggroup and played sports in broad school, and that he never uncomprehensible a kinsfolk event. She said he came to her house weekday morning, hours before the shooting, but she was in the descent and he mitt before she could see him.

"I wish there had been something I could have said or done," she said.

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Associated Press Writer Greg Bluestein in besieging contributed to this report.

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