Robbery Suspect Shot Dead by Deputies: News Around Cobb

The suspect in a recent armed robbery of a Cobb County Waffle House franchise was shot and killed by law enforcement as they attempted to serve a warrant for his arrest.

According to The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, sheriff’s deputies from Cobb and Paulding counties were joined by U.S. Marshals on Monday afternoon at the Powder Springs home of Michael Wayne Smashey, 37.

A warrant for Smashey’s arrest obtained by the AJC stated that he was behind the armed robbery of the Waffle House on Mars Hill Road on Jan. 30, which netted the suspect around $300.

Smashey was convicted of robbery, obstructing a law enforcement officer, and possession of marijuana and cocaine in 2003 and spent just over four years in prison, according to Georgia Department of Corrections records.

It is currently not know what happened to spark the shooting, which occurred just before 4 p.m., but the Georgia Bureau of Investigation has taken over the case.