A man is in the hospital after police in Cobb County shot him Sunday night, according to the GBI.
The shooting happened at a home in the 2600 block of Lone Oak Trail in Kennesaw. Police were called to the house about 6:15 p.m. after someone reported a domestic incident between a woman and her brother, according to Channel 2 Action News.
"As the officers arrived, they did see a suspect flee toward the basement," Kennesaw police spokesman Officer Scott Luther said.
When the man came back, he appeared to have a weapon with him, Luther said.
"He did present a threat and that's when the officer fired," Luther told Channel 2.
The man, identified by the GBI as Robert Thrash, 31, was taken to a hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.
No officers were injured, Luther said. He added that investigators found a weapon at the scene.
This is the 64th officer-involved shooting the GBI has been called in to investigate in 2019.
The last one happened when a Georgia man suspected of killing his wife and stabbing two others was shot by police in Toccoa. That suspect was taken into custody after police shot him Tuesday afternoon.
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The Atlanta Journal-Constitution also tracks officer-involved shootings that don't involve the GBI, and those numbers sometimes differ from the GBI's tally.
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