The officer involved was Jose Carvajal of the Huwasi Police Department. Sheriff Henderson arrested him at the scene where a deputy had been shot. Investigators say Carvajal had traveled into another part of Towns County to assist the wounded deputy. Prosecutors now claim the deputy shot himself. Carvajal is awaiting trial on the charges. Henderson is no longer serving as sheriff. After Atlanta News first exclusively aired the body cam footage, the Sheriff's Association urged Governor Kemp to investigate and suspend him. Which the governor later did. >> I got a deputy down the road. >> Hang on buddy, we're coming. >> A Huwasi officer raced into rural Towns County to help a deputy who had been shot. >> Where are you at? Where you hit? Where you hit? >> Deputy Austin Bradburn is still clutching his gun. >> Which way did he go? Hey, we've got you. Which way did he >> Straight. Austin, we got you. We got you. >> Straight, straight down. >> He is straight. >> Huwasi officer Jose Carvajal, a combat veteran, takes charge and directs deputies to stop the bleeding. >> Where you hit? Oh yeah, we found it. Leg hit. GO AND PUT THAT tourniquet on. All right. He's been hit in the left leg. >> In the darkness, officer Carvajal accidentally picks up the deputy's gun instead of his own. >> Uh, when the gurney showed up, we started pick him up. I stepped on the gun. Somebody said there's guns down here, so I reached down thinking it was mine. Put it in my holster. Finished putting him on the gurney. Realized it wasn't mine. Grabbed my gun. Took his out of my holster. Put it into his holster. >> Hey, he's got his gun. >> Yeah, that's his gun. It's in there. >> You take it. >> Hey yeah, get it. >> We got these power lines all going to the >> Wait, wait, wait, wait. >> Get the gun out. >> Took it out of his holster. Stuck it in my waistband because I had already touched it. I had already messed with it. I had already kicked it. It was better for me just to leave it there until GBI showed up and relieve me of it. >> Sheriff, we're we're just We're just coordinating the scene so that nothing else gets touched and nothing else happens. >> to me. Move back out of the way. >> Roger that. >> Hey, is that I do. It's right here. >> It's We moved it out of the way. >> I don't care why you moved it, bud. >> it out of the way. >> Lay the Get the Get >> I'm not touching it again until GBI shows up. Unless you want to grab it, you can grab it. >> No, I ain't grabbing it. >> I'm not Yeah, I'm not touching it anymore. >> You You should know better than that, buddy. >> Really? >> Are you not trained >> Let me get a pair of gloves. >> Get away from me. >> Hey, don't tell me get away. >> No, get it Hey, don't touch me. Hey, don't touch me. >> You listen. TOUCH ME. SHUT YOU WANT TO ARREST ME? WHAT ARE YOU DOING? >> YOU'RE THE ONE >> WHAT ARE YOU DOING? WHAT ARE YOU DOING? >> YOU STUPID son of a God, what did YOU PULL A GUN OUT FOR? YOU stupid >> Sheriff, stop. >> What are you doing, Sheriff? >> Please. >> Can you somebody get a zone and get that weapon out with a SET OF GLOVES? >> SOMEBODY. >> SOMEBODY GET THE gloves and get this gun for that sheriff. >> The sheriff's own deputies had to hold him back. >> Hold these We got a deputy shot. We're arguing out here. >> You listen. >> DON'T >> TOUCH ME. SHUT THE YOU WANT TO ARREST ME? WHAT ARE YOU DOING? >> LAY DOWN THERE. >> YOU DO UNDERSTAND THIS IS ALL ON CAMERA. >> SHERIFF. SHERIFF. SHERIFF. SHERIFF. >> You're the one that's going crazy. >> We got a shot deputy sheriff. >> Yes, we do. >> This is not the time or place. We'll take We'll get this Take care of it, okay? >> We'll We'll deal with this on the back end. >> I told him to give me the gun. >> The sheriff said he wanted the city officer to place the deputy's gun back at the scene before the Georgia Bureau of Investigation arrived. >> No, I'm going to stay right here, Sheriff. >> You better listen to my attorney. >> Oh, I won't touch you. I won't touch you. >> You're under arrest. Go ahead. >> Yeah, that's how you're going to get arrested. >> Turn around. Put your hands behind your back. You've gone to jail. >> Hold on. Hold on a second. Let me go ahead and put this camera on. >> Yeah. Yeah, go ahead. Go ahead and get it out. >> Go ahead. Have somebody go ahead do it. >> Yeah. >> Go ahead. Have somebody arrest the sheriff. >> You're arrested. I arrested you. >> All right. Come on. >> Turn around and put your [ __ ] hands up here. >> Come on. >> Get this gun off this maniac. >> Come on. >> I don't I don't I'll have to back up. >> 305 Towne, just to let you know, 101 is placing me under arrest. >> Yes, 101 is placing you under arrest. >> Here, let me go ahead and let me go ahead and take this stuff off. Come on, let me see. Okay. 101 is placing me under arrest. >> Uh-uh. >> What? >> 305 just got placed under arrest. >> You didn't want I told him we needed to get that gun out. You didn't listen to me. He said, "I'm not leaving this place." >> No, I didn't say that. >> Yes, you did. >> I'm almost I >> Yes, you did. >> Body camera, Sheriff. >> Go ahead, come on, HURRY UP. PUT THE [ __ ] CUFFS ON ME. >> NO, I didn't say that. >> That's exactly what >> What's What's nice is that it's all on body camera. It's all on body camera. >> care if it's on body camera, buddy. >> And that was on my [ __ ] camera, can I? That's [ __ ] ridiculous. That's the most [ __ ] ridiculous guy I've ever [ __ ] seen in my life. >> Some deputies walked away. Others could only stand and watch in disbelief. >> That's what we're more concerned about, not the shot deputy. And that right there just shows >> Yeah. >> That's insane. >> The type of man, the type of leader. And Jose said, "I'm not going to do anything with the gun until the GBI gets here." >> Right. >> And then Sheriff come out there and >> How? >> and put his hands on him. Y'all seen the Sheriff put his hands on Jose first, didn't you? >> That's what I saw. >> That's what I saw. I'm not lying. >> No. >> When When the GBI talks, that's what it's going to be. This is so wrong. >> I don't even know if that's a word. >> This is immoral. I know it's cool. >> They're talking about their boss. >> He's more concerned with the city of Athens-Clarke than the guy shot deputy. It's the This ain't the first, this ain't the second time, this ain't the third time. He's more concerned with that department than he is about our own god safety. That's the piece of leader I've ever seen in my life. >> We inside the city or out here? >> Just right here. >> Okay. >> I pulled over. >> I pulled over. >> Go pull the video at the Valero. You get on my traffic stop again, I will arrest you. >> Yeah, I'll arrest you right here. >> Do it, buddy. Do it. >> HIM. DO IT, ED. DO IT, ED. Do it. >> In 2022, the sheriff confronted a Huwatsi police officer during a traffic stop, claiming the officer was outside the city limits. >> at the city limits. >> YOU DON'T TALK TO ME LIKE THAT. I'M NOT YOUR BOY. Do it. THANK YOU. THANK YOU, SIR. THANK YOU. >> Back at the shooting scene, Officer Carvajal remained handcuffed in the back of a sheriff's patrol car for more than 20 minutes. >> patrol car. >> I get him on camera and say, "Jose, be police's best friend. Turn your camera on and let him make a statement as to what he did. Let him talk on that. We'll help the sheriff on the backside of the PI. Let Jose on our camera say, "I picked the gun up, you know, let him admit that he picked the gun up from the crime scene." >> Officer Carvajal was released without being charged and instructed to leave the scene. >> I'm clear, guys. >> Yeah, you got room. >> The wounded deputy, Austin Bradburn, made a full recovery. He was later fired by the sheriff's office and arrested for making false statements to the GBI. The district attorney told ANF Investigates Deputy Bradburn shot himself twice in the leg with his own gun.