Family finalizing funeral arrangements for fallen Carroll County investigator

Funeral arrangements for Carroll County Inv. Taylor Bristow are expected to be finalized this week.

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The Carroll County Sheriff’s Office said his family was working to finalize the place Sunday afternoon.

Bristow was an investigator, serving a search warrant Tuesday morning in Carrolton . Georgia Bureau of Investigation agents believe a man named Christopher Bly shot and killed himself, and the sheriff’s office believes the bullet hit Bristow.

Bly died at the home.

Paramedics flew Bristow to Grady Memorial Hospital in Atlanta. He died Friday night, according to the sheriff’s office.

He was a 30-year-old newlywed with two children.

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Saturday morning, officers from across Metro-Atlanta escorted his body to a funeral home in Breman.

That same day, the founder of an organization called West Georgia First Responders, Shane Davis, announced more than $20,000 in donations came in to help the Bristow family make ends meet without him.

“Maybe set it up where we can pay a couple of years of mortgage for them,” said Davis.

Davis expects to connect with the family after the funeral and figure out what they need immediately. Davis hopes to keep it running until after the holidays.

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Bristow is the second deputy killed this week in Georgia.

Dep. Brandon Cunningham died on the job in Paulding County. Channel 2 Action News was at his funeral Friday.

Like Bristow, he was 30 years old with two children. He was still planning his wedding.

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