Crime & Safety
Cobb Police Kill Armed Naked Man
The man threatened the officers Tuesday night at the Riverside House Apartments, a police spokesman says.
A officer fatally shot a naked man wielding a weapon at an East Cobb apartment complex Tuesday night.
Cobb police received a call of shots fired at the Riverside House Apartments on Shadowood Parkway about 7:40 p.m., The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported.
A naked, armed man confronted officers outside an apartment, police spokesman Sgt. Dana Pierce told WSB-TV.
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“He made an aggressive move toward those officers,” Pierce said on the Channel 2 Action News This Morning, and the officers opened fire.
The naked man died at the scene.
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Fox 5 said the resulting investigation lasted hours while residents were kept outside the complex, which is between Powers Ferry Road and Rottenwood Creek south of Windy Ridge Parkway.
Homicide and internal affairs investigators were involved, WSB said, and the officer who fired the fatal shot was taken to police headquarters to be interviewed.
Smyrna-Vinings Patch should have more details on the shooting later today.