Cobb Police Officer Shot With Agent's Gun

AUSTELL, GA — A Cobb County Police officer was shot Friday morning with a state agent's handgun while serving an arrest warrant at a home in Austell, according to police.

Cobb officers were helping the Georgia Department of Corrections serve the warrant at a home on the 700 block of Six Flags Road. According to the police department, people at the home told officers that Dvonte Whitaker, whom they were seeking, was not there.

But a state agent found him hiding in a bathroom. Whitaker and the agent struggled and, according to police, Whitaker reached for the agent's gun.

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When he did, the gun went off and hit the Cobb officer in the arm. The officer was taken to WellStar Kennestone Hospital with non-life threatening injuries.

The charges against Whitaker were not publicly available Friday afternoon. He was booked after the shooting at the Cobb County Detention Center.

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