A person was killed and a Georgia trooper was injured Wednesday as officials cleared out the site of a controversial proposed law enforcement training center in Atlanta.

Tensions have been rising in the city over the proposed Public Safety Training Center: a sprawling stretch of 85 acres of forested land in DeKalb County that will have a shooting range, an amphitheater and a mock city that will be used for training.

Opponents have called the center “Cop City,” and protesters have camped out in the area to decry construction.

A multiagency operation to clear out the area was conducted around 9 a.m. Wednesday.

Law enforcement found a man in a tent inside the woods who “did not comply” with verbal commands and shot a Georgia State Patrol trooper, the Georgia Bureau of Investigation said in a news release.

GBI Director Mike Register said the man opened fire “without warning.”

Other law enforcement officers returned fire, hitting the man, who died at the scene, the GBI said.