Gang Member Arrested For Shooting At Cobb Police Officer

MARIETTA, GA — A man authorities say is a documented gang member has been arrested for shooting at a Cobb County Police officer after a multi-county chase that ended with him hiding in a convenience store.

Kevin Scott Sosebee, of Mableton, was booked into Cobb County Detention Center on Saturday on charges of aggravated assault, possessing a weapon during the commission of a crime and probation violation.

At about 1:20 a.m. last Tuesday, officers were investigating what they called suspicious activity involving a vehicle at the Exxon gas station at 6211 block of Mableton Parkway in south Cobb County, according to police Sgt. Dana Pierce. When an officer attempted to stop the vehicle, a passenger leaned out and fired multiple shots at the officer, according to Pierce.

The shots missed the officer, who did not return fire. The driver sped away, Pierce said. A chase followed, but officers lost track of the vehicle, which was later found abandoned on Venetian Way.

Authorities now say that shooter was Sosebee, who they say is a documented member of the Ghost Face Gangsters. During the next two days, an extensive search for Sosebee involved members of the U.S. Marshals office, Cobb County Sheriff's Office and other agencies.

Investigators learned Sosebee was hiding in a remote trailer off of Pope Road in Carroll County and, on Friday, he was located in the Villa Rica area. He led officers on a chase that crossed into two counties and ended as Sosebee got out of his vehicle and tried to hide in a gas station off of Highway 27 in Carroll County, according to Cobb County Sheriff's Office spokesman Glenn Daniel.

Officers surrounded the gas station and Sosebee was taken into custody without incident, Daniel said.

He was booked at Carroll County Jail, then transported to Cobb County, where he was charged.

Authorities say Ghost Face Gangsters are a white-supremacist gang affiliated with the Aryan Brotherhood. Primarily a prison gang, Ghost Face Gangsters has an estimated 3,000 members and, in 2015, Christopher Henry, who authorities said was a high-ranking member of the group, was charged in Savannah with running a major methamphetamine operation from behind prison bars.

Photo courtesy Cobb County Sheriff's Office