Instead of admitting he had a small amount of marijuana, a man attacked an Alpharetta officer, police say.
Timothy Hadaway remained in the Fulton County jail Wednesday, facing felony aggravated battery charges in addition to a misdemeanor marijuana charge, according to Channel 2 Action News.
Hadaway attacked Officer David Freeman, the same officer who had been shot seven times during a chase that ended on Ga. 400 in 2013.
Freeman was shot in the lower abdomen, right elbow, shoulder, leg and back, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution previously reported. His bulletproof vest saved his life.
Neither the shooting nor an attack earlier this year, where a suspect smashed Freeman’s head against his patrol car, stopped Freeman from chasing Hadaway on Sunday.
“The male ran out of his sandals while I was chasing him,” Freeman wrote in the police report. “He was still carrying the unknown item which was wrapped in his shirt.”
Alpharetta police spokesman George Gordon told Channel 2 Action News it all started after an officer spotted Hadaway in a parking lot near the Lake Windward Club tennis courts.
“The officers yelled for him to stop,” Gordon told the news station. “At that point, they deployed their Taser and he was brought into custody.”
Freeman and additional Alpharetta police officers caught Hadaway in front of a house on Spinnaker Drive, where they found the marijuana.
“This whole thing could have been prevented if he simply said, ‘Yes, you got me,’” Gordon said.
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