UPDATED 5:20 P.M., SUNDAY
The GBI identified the suspect as Jeffery Thomas Moore, 22, of Woodstock.
According to a release the agency issued late Sunday afternoon, after the attack on a Publix employee, Moore was found by Cobb Police officers hiding in a yard at a residence on Bedell Road, near the supermarket shopping center.
Officers attempted to take him into custody using a taser after he resisted arrest, according to the GBI, which said that Moore was then shot by an officer.
The GBI said Moore got away from police and was apprehended in a heavily wooded area. The officer who was attacked has been released from the hospital.
Morris was previously taken to Wellstar Kennestone and later was booked into the Cobb County Adult Detention Center on a felony charge of willful obstruction of a police officer and two misdemeanor charges each of simple assault and simple battery.
He was being detained on $5,000 bail.
The GBI said once its investigation is complete it will turn over its findings to the Cobb County District Attorney’s Office.
ORIGINAL REPORT
Cobb Police said an officer shot a man they said was physically attacking employees of an East Cobb Publix store as they arrived for work Sunday morning.
In a release issued by Sgt. Wayne Delk, Cobb Police Public Information Officer, police were called to the scene at the Publix at 4750 Alabama Road around 7 a.m. Sunday. By the time officers arrived, according to Delk, the man had left the scene, but additional calls came from around the area of someone attacking people in nearby parking lots.
Police said officers located the suspect and he attacked them, injuring an officer. The man then fled on foot as they pursued him into a residential neighborhood, according to police.
Delk said there was a second confrontation between officers and the man in the neighbornood, during which an officer shot the man. However, according to police, the man was able to get away.
Delk said that following a search between officers from Cobb Police Precincts 4 and 1, Roswell Police, the Georgia State Patrol and the Cherokee Sheriff’s Office, the suspect was taken into custody and sent to Wellstar Kennestone Hospital, where he was treated with a non-life-threatening gunshot wound below the waist.
Delk also said the officer who was attacked also was taken to Kennestone for a leg injury.
The suspect was not identified.
The area is near the Cobb-Fulton line, and close to the City of Roswell and the Sandy Plains Village shopping center, between Sandy Plains Road and Mabry Road in Northeast Cobb.
Because this is a officer-involved shooting, Cobb Police are not releasing further details. The case will be investigated by the Georgia Department of Investigation, according to Delk.
The GBI has not yet sent out any further information.
This story will be updated.
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