A 38-year-old Georgia man was found dead on Hood River’s Indian Creek Trail after running through the town Saturday morning throwing fireworks, running with a shotgun, and firing at streetlights as he ran from police. According to the Hood River Police Department, officers responded to a nuisance call at about 3:17 Saturday morning regarding a person yelling and throwing fireworks in the 100 block of East State Steet. Police found the man. eventually identified as Herbert Victor Blount of Tyrone, Georgia, running with a shotgun. He began running in the downtown, firing at streetlights while police attempted to give the man verbal commands. Officers located Blount near 7th and Sherman, and he continued to fire rounds. One deputy was hit by shotgun pellets, but a police statement said he was uninjured. Officers lost sight of Blount, but he was located by a Hood River County Sheriff’s Office airplane on the Indian Creek Trail at 5:41 a.m. and was found deceased from an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound. Police say no shots were fired by law enforcement during the incident. The investigation is on-going, and anyone with information is asked to call Hood River Police at 541-387-5256.