DA investigator accidentally shoots herself at Fulton County courthouse

ATLANTA - A Fulton County investigator is recovering after investigators say they accidentally shot themselves while on duty Friday at the courthouse.  

SKYFOX 5 flew over the scene just minutes after the 10 a.m. shot was fired at the Fulton County Courthouse in downtown Atlanta. FOX 5 saw the injured investigator leaving the courthouse in an ambulance.

According to authorities, the investigator with the Fulton County District Attorney's office accidentally fired a shot, hitting herself in the leg.

Sources close to the probe tell FOX 5 the female investigator shot herself in the leg inside the fourth-floor handicap accessible bathroom.

"It was an accidental shooting, so there is no intent to commit a crime. Unfortunately for the investigator, she was the one who was shot," former prosecutor Ash Joshi remarked.

The Fulton County Courthouse in Atlanta, Georgia, US, on Tuesday, Sept. 5, 2023. (Elijah Nouvelage/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

Joshi was a young prosecutor on March 11, 2005, when then rape suspect turned prisoner Brian Nichols overpowered a deputy, shot and killed a judge, a court reporter and another deputy during his rape trial.

"I will never get over that, me and several others, primarily because we lost friends in that shooting," Joshi confided.

Investigators say the officer is expected to recover from her injury.

County officials have not yet released her name.