Updated, 1:15 p.m. Friday:
The suspect has been identified as Durrell Harris, 34 or 35, of Green Bay, Wis., whom Marietta Police said has numerous outstanding warrants in Wisconsin.
Marietta Police Public Information Officer Chuck McPhilamy said he did not know what the warrants for Harris are in Wisconsin.
Harris has been booked in the Cobb County Adult Detention Center on felony charges of false imprisonment, possession of cocaine and possession of a controlled substance, and misdemeanor charges of willful obstruction of a law enforcement officer and marijuana possession.
Harris is being held without bond, according to Cobb Sheriff’s Office booking reports.
McPhilamy said police received text messages Thursday afternoon from someone asking for help from a unit at The Falls at Sope Creek apartments, saying the suspect had threatened the individual and children and that there were weapons in the unit.
An arrest warrant states that police were dispatched to the complex at 1950 Roswell Road at at 3:30 p.m. Thursday, giving “multiple verbal commands . . . . loudly,” including from a patrol car’s public address system for the suspect to come out the apartment.
Another texter also said that the man in the apartment had multiple weapons and had his seven-year-old daughter with him, and had installed several surveillance cameras in the apartment, according to McPhilamy.
McPhilamy said that texter told police the man, later identified as Harris and a resident of the unit, has “multiple warrants from two other states.”
The arrest warrant states that the suspect refused to let a female inside the apartment leave, and he ordered her to barricade the door. According to the warrant, she was told to sit on the couch and not to get up and was not able to leave until police rammed open the door.
McPhilamy said a search warrant was executed by the Marietta Police Crime Interdiction Unit at 8:20 p.m. and two females—a seven-year-old girl and a 19-year-old woman—escaped.
Police said the girl is the suspect’s daughter and the woman, Anayaa Tate, from Ohio, “is a recent acquaintance of the suspect and has cooperated with investigators.”
The standoff continued for nearly four more hours, and McPhilamy said nearby residents were evacuated. He said once police gained entry to the apartment, they found the suspect in a “safe room” he had constructed inside a closet in the apartment (see below), but he would not come out and was tazed.
The warrant states that Harris was taken into custody at 12:45 a.m. and that no weapons were found in the apartment.
McPhilamy said that after Harris faces charges in Georgia, he will be extradited to Wisconsin.
Updated, 12:45 a.m. Friday:
Police said the suspect was taken into custody without injuries, and more information will be released later Friday.
Original Report:
Marietta Police said a suspect was barricaded in a Roswell Road apartment complex Thursday night, prompting a heavy law enforcement response.
Numerous police vehicles surrounded a building at The Falls at Sope Creek (1950 Roswell Road), and a SWAT response also has been called, according to Marietta Police.
Social media postings did not indicate the reason the suspect has been barricaded. There was a police officer on the stairwell apparently speaking to the suspect.
At 10:18 p.m., Marietta Police said two females were released from the apartment “but the suspect remains inside. Please pray for a peaceful resolution!”
Among the vehicles lined up in front of the building in question is a van from Cobb County Animal Control.
This story will be updated.
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