Crime & Safety
Suicidal Woman Shot By Police Had Child Inside Cobb Home: Cops
A woman threatening suicide was shot to death early Tuesday afternoon at a home in East Cobb County.
MARIETTA, GA — The Georgia Bureau of Investigation has been called in to investigate an officer-involved fatal shooting of a woman Tuesday afternoon in East Cobb, where a toddler was present inside the home. Cobb County 9-1-1 dispatchers received a call around 12:22 p.m. Nov. 7 of a woman making suicidal threats at a home in the 2500 block of Robin Hood Place NE, which is off Roswell Road in East Cobb.
Four Cobb officers arrived on the scene and were met by a 32-year-old woman, who left and returned to the front door area on a number of occasions, said Cobb police spokesperson Sgt. Dana Pierce.
During her last appearance at the door, Pierce said the woman allegedly brandished a firearm and "she made an overt action" toward the officers. Three of the four officers responded with gun fire, striking the woman an unknown number of times.
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Officers rendered emergency medical aid to the woman, and she was taken to WellStar Kennestone Hospital, where she was pronounced dead. The woman, whose identity will not be released at this time, had her three-year-old daughter inside the home at the time of the incident, Sgt. Pierce said. Fortunately the child was not injured. A neighbor took in the child immediately after the shooting, and she will be released to family, Sgt. Pierce said.
Along with the GBI, the Cobb County Police Department's Crimes Against Persons Unit and the Cobb Department of Public Safety's Internal Affairs Unit also are working the scene of the shooting. Sgt. Pierce said the department's policy requires the Internal Affairs Unit to be called in to assist with any investigation related to officer-involved shootings.
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Tuesday's fatal events aren't the first time Cobb officers have responded to calls at this particular address. Sgt. Pierce said dispatchers have received calls of a similar nature in the past, so much so that the address and the woman killed "were known to officers."
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