Suspect arrested for trying to run down Cobb Police officer

An update to a story we posted last week:

Cobb Police said Monday they’ve arrested a man they say tried to run down an officer on Terrell Mill Road, and who fled the scene after an officer shot at his vehicle.

Sgt. Eric Smith said that Quartavious Z. Greene, 40, who has an East Cobb address, is being held without bond at the Cobb County Adult Detention Center.

According to his booking report, Greene was taken into custody on Thursday.

He is charged with felony counts of aggravated assault on an officer, two counts of interference with government property and misdemeanor counts of willful obstruction of a law enforcement officer and improper stopping on a roadway.

Police said that officers were called to the intersection of Terrell Mill Road and Brookview Drive—the entrance to the Terrell Mill Estates subdivision—around 5:45 a.m. on Sunday, April 12, in response to to a report of a driver asleep in a black Mercedes SUV.

Greene’s arrest warrant stated that the vehicle “was stopped long enough to raise the concern of a nearby citizen prompting them to call 911.”

When they arrived, officers saw a driver asleep inside the vehicle, according to police, and they placed a patrol car in front of the Mercedes, which was flanked at the back by a parked fire truck.

But police said that as officers woke up the driver, he refused to follow repeated commands to come out of the Mercedes.

According to the warrant, the suspect “reversed his vehicle into a parked firetruck before accelerating it towards” one of the officers “in a manner which was likely to or could actually result in serious bodily injury or death.”

Police said in their release last week that an officer fired at the vehicle, and it was unclear whether the suspect had been hit.

Greene’s warrant states that the Mercedes struck a police car as it fled the scene. Officers followed on a brief pursuit southbound on Terrell Mill Road, but they lost contact.

Smith said Monday that the incident remains under investigation by the Cobb Police Major Crimes Unit and the Georgia Bureau of Investigation, since it involves an officer-involved shooting.

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