BIBB COUNTY, Ga. - A man suspected in the fatal shooting of a woman outside a Family Dollar on Jeffersonville Road Tuesday afternoon was killed hours later in an exchange of gunfire with deputies, according to the Bibb County Sheriff’s Office.

What we know:

Deputies responded to the Family Dollar parking lot around 4:40 p.m. Sept. 2 after reports of shots fired. They found 56-year-old Regina Darlene Smith unresponsive in a Nissan Rogue with a gunshot wound. She was pronounced dead at the scene. A 79-year-old man in the vehicle was also shot and taken to a hospital, where he remains in critical but stable condition.

Investigators identified the suspect as 43-year-old Catrell Tywan Ford. Witnesses told deputies the shooting may have stemmed from a prior vehicle accident. Ford fled the s

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