Cobb Police said Tuesday afternoon that three officers shot a woman at her East Cobb home after she threatened them while they responded to a suicide call.
The woman, whom police said made an “overt action” with a handgun toward the officers, was transported to WellStar Kennestone Hospital and later died.
Cobb Police spokesman Sgt. Dana Pierce said the woman’s name has not been released and that an investigation will be conducted by the Georgia Bureau of Investigation, which is customary in an officer-involved shooting.
Pierce said the Cobb emergency communications center received a 911 call at 12:22 p.m. Tuesday for a home on Robin Hood Place, located off Hood Road and near Roswell Road. He said the call was due to suicide threats.
Four officers arrived at the home and found a 32-year-old woman inside, according to Pierce.
He said the woman left through the front door and returned inside, “and at one point made an overt action” with a handgun, threatening the officers. Three of the four officers then shot her, Pierce said.
The officers were not injured, and Pierce would not elaborate on the woman’s threatening action, saying that’s part of the GBI investigation.
Pierce said the woman’s three-year-old daughter was unharmed, and was with a family member at the time of the incident.
Pierce said this was not the first time police have been called to the home for similar reasons. “We have been at this residence before,” he said. “There’s a history here.”
He didn’t immediately have the dates of those previous incidents.
There was a heavy police presence on Robin Hood Lane.
Pierce said that in addition to the GBI, the Cobb internal affairs division is also investigating the shooting.
