Forsyth Shooting-Victim Deputy Is On The Mend

CUMMING, GA — A Forsyth County sheriff's deputy who was shot while responding to a domestic dispute on July 16 is on the mend.

As he continues to recover from the shooting, Deputy Jon Beival paid a visit to the sheriff's office on Thursday afternoon. Office spokesman Deputy Doug Rainwater shared a photo of Beival and Sheriff Ron Freeman taken during the visit.

"They say you can't keep a good man down," Rainwater wrote.

He wrote that Beival, who was shot twice in the leg, is "progressing well" as he recovers.

Deputies had responded to a call of a domestic dispute at a home home on Akins Way. When they arrived, they were trying to get 35-year-old Elias Alexander Quintero to come outside and speak with them when they "came under significant and sustained gunfire" from a high-powered rifle, according to Rainwater.

As deputies were returning fire, Beival was shot twice in the lower leg, Rainwater said.

Fellow deputies placed a tourniquet on the leg and he was immediately evacuated to a local hospital, where he was treated for non-life threatening injuries.

A standoff at the home continued until late in the evening, after a SWAT team had been called in.

Rainwater said that, after attempts at negotiation failed, Quintero took his own life. No one else other than Beival was injured during the standoff.

Photo via Forsyth County Sheriff's Office