The Georgia Bureau of Investigation said Wednesday identified a man shot and killed by Cobb Police during a residential standoff as a Guatemalan national who had “an active removal order.”
The GBI said in a release that Hermelindo Morete-Dista, 27, was pronounced dead on the scene of the incident on Bradley Avenue southwest of Marietta Monday night.
The GBI said that Cobb Police were responding to reports of possible gunshots at a home on Bradley Avenue, located off Smyrna-Powder Springs Road, around 10:40 p.m. Monday.
Police set up a perimeter around the front of the residence, according to the GBI. When Morete-Dista left the home with a weapon in his hand, the GBI said, he was given verbal commands by officers to drop the gun.
The GBI said that instead, Morete-Dista “continued to hold the firearm and began pointing it toward officers,” and several of them shot him, hitting him multiple times.
The GBI, which investigates officer-involved shootings in Georgia, said that it will turn over its findings to the Cobb District Attorney’s office for review.
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