It began as a follow-up on a credit card complaint at a suburban hotel. Minutes later, one police officer lay mortally wounded, another was bleeding, and the man they had come to question was accused of opening fire inside his own room.
According to officials, what unfolded inside a Holiday Inn Express near Stone Mountain, Georgia, recently turned a routine fraud investigation into a fatal shooting that is now under state review. One Gwinnett County police officer, 25-year-old Pradeep Tamang, died at a hospital. His colleague, veteran officer David Reed, survived with serious injuries. The man they were trying to arrest, 35-year-old Kevin Andrews of Decatur, is expected to recover from gunshot wounds and has been charged with murder.
From Credit Card Complaint to Arrest Attempt
The chain of events began when a person in South Carolina reported that their credit card had been used without permission at the Holiday Inn Express outside Atlanta. The Georgia Bureau of Investigation, or GBI, said in a statement that two Gwinnett County officers were dispatched to the hotel to look into the complaint, according to reporting by Fox News that cites that statement.
At the front desk, staff directed the officers to a room reportedly rented by Andrews, the GBI statement said, as reported by the Associated Press and Fox News. The officers checked his name and learned there was an active warrant for his arrest out of neighboring DeKalb County for failure to appear in court.
Armed with that warrant information, the officers went to Andrews’ room to arrest him. According to Gwinnett County Police Chief J.D. McClure, Andrews answered the door and did not initially resist.
What Officials Say Happened Inside the Room
Speaking at a news conference, McClure said Andrews welcomed the officers into the room before the encounter turned violent. He described the interaction this way, according to the Associated Press account carried by Fox News:
“They began discussing the scenario of the incident with him,” McClure said. “And at some point, the suspect produced a handgun and, in an unprovoked attack, fired at our Gwinnett County police officers.”
One of the officers returned fire, hitting Andrews, officials said. All three men were transported to hospitals. Tamang died of his injuries. Reed was listed in serious but stable condition the same day, according to the Fox News report that relied on official statements.
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A credit card fraud probe at a hotel in Lawrenceville, Gwinnett County, Officer Pradeep Tamang was killed & David Reed critically injured
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Neither the GBI nor Gwinnett County police have publicly released a full investigative report. As of the latest available reporting, authorities have not disclosed how many shots were fired, who fired first according to physical evidence, or whether any body camera or hotel surveillance video captured the shooting. The GBI notes on its website that it is the lead agency in officer-involved shooting investigations across Georgia, but case-specific records in this incident are not yet public.
The Officers: A New Recruit and a Veteran
Chief McClure identified the officers as Pradeep Tamang and David Reed, according to the Associated Press report. Tamang, 25, had joined the Gwinnett County Police Department in 2024, making him a relatively new officer.
Reed joined the department in 2015, which means he had roughly a decade of service at the time of the shooting. Officials have not released detailed information about their prior assignments, whether either officer had previously been involved in use-of-force incidents, or what specific training they had received for hotel-based arrests.
Georgia Governor Brian Kemp publicly acknowledged the shooting on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter, in comments quoted by Fox News. He said he was “mourning the loss of a brave officer” and “praying for the swift recovery of another.” In a longer post, Kemp added, “This is the latest reminder of the dangers law enforcement face on a daily basis, and we are grateful for every one that puts themselves in harm’s way to protect their fellow Georgians.”
The Accused: Charges Against Kevin Andrews
The suspect in the shooting, identified by authorities as Kevin Andrews of Decatur, also suffered gunshot wounds. He was taken to a hospital and was expected to survive, with plans to move him to the county jail once medically cleared, according to the statements reported by Fox News and the Associated Press.
Law enforcement officials have described Andrews as a convicted felon. According to charging information reported by Fox News, Andrews faces:
Item 1: One count of malice murder.
Item 2: One count of felony murder.
Item 3: Two counts of aggravated assault upon a public safety officer.
Item 4: One count of possession of a firearm by a convicted felon.
Those are serious felony charges under Georgia law that can carry lengthy prison sentences or, in some circumstances, life without parole. Prosecutors have not yet filed a public indictment that would lay out a detailed narrative of the alleged crimes. At this stage, the charges reflect allegations, not findings by a judge or jury. Andrews is presumed innocent unless and until he is convicted in court.
The original reason officers went to the hotel, a report of a fraudulently used credit card, is still under investigation as well. Authorities have not publicly said whether that credit card complaint has been confirmed as criminal fraud, whether Andrews is suspected in that financial case, or whether any other hotel guests or staff may face charges related to the card use.
GBI Investigation and What Remains Unanswered
The Georgia Bureau of Investigation has opened an inquiry into the hotel shooting as an officer-involved incident, which is standard practice in the state. The GBI routinely investigates when officers fire their weapons, then turns its findings over to local prosecutors for any charging decisions. The agency has said this case will be sent to the Gwinnett County District Attorney’s Office once its probe is complete, according to the report at Fox News.
That outside investigation is designed to answer basic factual questions, including:
Item 1: The sequence of events inside the hotel room and who fired which shots.
Item 2: Whether the officers followed department policy when entering the room to serve an arrest related to a failure to appear warrant.
Item 3: What physical, forensic, and potential video evidence shows about the moments before gunfire began.
Publicly available reporting so far does not indicate whether Tamang and Reed were wearing body cameras, whether hotel hallway cameras recorded the officers’ approach, or whether any guests on the same floor witnessed the encounter. Those details, if they exist, are likely to appear first in GBI reports or future court filings.
Another unresolved issue is how the failure-to-appear warrant against Andrews was originally issued, what underlying case it involved, and whether officers had any prior interactions with him. None of that information appears in the summaries provided by Fox News or in the brief characterizations of the GBI statement.
For now, the public picture of the shooting rests largely on statements from law enforcement officials and the early criminal charges. The GBI investigation, any eventual prosecution, and potential release of body camera footage or investigative records will determine how much more the community learns about what exactly happened in that hotel room and why a simple fraud follow-up ended with one officer dead and another seriously wounded.
