Cobb police seeking man shot in Mableton home invasion
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Cobb County police are looking for a man believed to have shot a Mableton man during a Tuesday home invasion.
Around 1 p.m., the armed man entered a home in the 200 block of Nickajack Road and encountered a pair of people.
He tied up the people and moved to another end of the house, where he encountered a third person, authorities said.
While the man was binding the third person at the home, one of the individuals escaped from his bindings and got a gun.
Police have not named the escaped victim, but CBS Atlanta News identified him as home owner Danny Carlson, a neighborhood tennis instructor.
Carlson found the invader, and gun shots were exchanged, Cobb police spokesman Joe Hernandez said.
Carlson was shot and taken to Atlanta Medical Center with non-life-threatening injuries, authorities said.
The suspect, whom police believe also was shot, fled the house on foot toward Fontaine Road, Hernandez said.
Police described the suspect as a 40- to 50-year-old black man weighing between 200 and 250 pounds, and standing about 6 feet tall.
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