The suspect was taken into custody with out incident, police stated Wednesday throughout a press convention.
The suspect entered the medical facility shortly earlier than midday and allegedly shot the primary sufferer shortly after, Deputy Chief Charles Hampton stated. The suspect spent two minutes within the constructing earlier than exiting and going to a Shell gasoline station, the place he commandeered a pickup truck, in accordance with Hampton.
Atlanta Police Chief Darren Schierbaum speaks at a press convention on Might 3, 2023.
Officers have been in a position to place the license plate quantity into the reader system, Hampton stated, and acquired an alert at roughly 12:30 that the suspect was in Cobb County.
Expertise “performed an enormous function,” Cobb County Police Chief Stuart VanHoozer stated, “however expertise would not work with out the devoted individuals behind it.”
Cobb County police patrol items drive close to the complicated the place the Atlanta capturing suspect was apprehended, on Might 3, 2023.
Police had checked and cleared an unoccupied constructing they knew the suspect had gone into, VanHoozer stated, including {that a} “real-time operator” took a 911 name and had an intuition that it was official, they usually prioritized that decision.
An undercover officer made the primary contact with the suspect and had backup from uniformed officers, the chief stated.
-ABC Information’ Darren Reynolds
