Teenager Socked With Can of Tomato Paste Inside East Cobb Restaurant: Police

A pair of Cobb County women allegedly used a bizarre improvised weapon to attack a 16-year-old boy inside an East Cobb fast food restaurant earlier this month.

According to an arrest warrant obtained by the Marietta Daily Journal, Raven Mitchell and Rumer Rajeshri Cooke walked into the restaurant on Sandy Plains Road at approximately 8:30 a.m. on Jan. 7. They stood by the trash bins in the front of the store while they observed their victim briefly. Mitchell then allegedly approached him, asked him his name, and tasered him in the neck.

The warrant states that the taser attack incapacitated the young man, and he fell to the floor. Mitchell and Cooke then proceeded to beat the boy with a metal cane and a 6 oz. can of tomato paste which was stuffed inside a sock. The warrant adds that Mitchell brandished the weaponized sock at one of the restaurant’s managers.

According to Cobb County jail records, Mitchell, 23, was arrested at her Marietta home on Jan. 9 and has been charged with two counts of aggravated assault, one count of stalking, one count of criminal trespassing, and one count of first degree cruelty to children.

Jail records indicate that Cooke, 51, was arrested at the same home at the same time as Mitchell. Cooke faces one count each of aggravated assault, stalking, criminal trespassing, and first degree cruelty to children.

Neither woman was granted bond.