UPDATED, WEDNESDAY, 12:30 P.M.
Police have charged Donald T. Welborn Jr., of 2518 Kingsley Drive in East Cobb, with eight counts of aggravated assault on police officers. He is being held without bond.
UPDATED, TUESDAY, 12:40 P.M.
Cobb Police said they have taken the barricaded man into custody and that the standoff ended peacefully with no injuries.
They said the neighborhood will be reopening soon.
ORIGINAL STORY, POSTED 11:07 A.M.:
Residents of two East Cobb neighborhoods were ordered to shelter-in-place Tuesday morning while Cobb Police SWAT officers responded to a call of a barricaded man in his home.
Police said around 7:30 a.m. Tuesday that shots were “actively being fired” at a home on Kingsley Drive in the Newscastle subdivision, near Post Oak Tritt Road.
Police also ordered residents of Kingsley Drive between Castle Lane and Vineyard Court to remain in their homes. The entrance to the New Castle and Arthur’s Vineyard neighborhoods also have been blocked off by police.
Police were called to the scene after neighbors reported shots around 5:30 a.m.
Sgt. Wayne Delk, a Cobb Police spokesman, said in a statement around 9:30 a.m. that a man was shooting both inside and outside the home, but no injuries have been reported.
Delk said police believe the man is home alone, but he didn’t have any information about what type of weapons were used in the shootings.
“Obviously we’re taking this very seriously in shutting down the neighborhood for the safety of everyone,” Delk said in a press briefing.
He said Cobb Police SWAT team members and negotiators have been in contact with the man, but he wouldn’t elaborate.
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