Shooting triggers SWAT team response in Cobb County

Two people were detained and one man was eventually arrested after a Cobb County shooting Thursday morning injured a man and triggered a response from a SWAT team.

The shooting happened just after 12:30 a.m. on Favor Road, Cobb police Sgt. Dana Pierce said.

Police later arrested 34-year-old Julius Evans at his Cobb home.

The injured man was taken to a local hospital with injuries that weren’t considered life threatening.

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Channel 2's Darryn Moore reports.

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