A nearly 20-hour SWAT situation in Clayton County came to an end late Monday morning after the suspect, who police described as “armed and dangerous,” was apprehended following a brief manhunt.
Jeremiah Rose, 41, was being sought after he escaped from a home in the 11000 block of Tara Glynn Drive, where he had been barricaded since 4 p.m. Sunday, police said. He was arrested just before noon Monday, not long after the department issued a shelter-in-place order.
Officers were called to the home in the southern part of the county after getting a request for a wellness check, the department said in a statement. The caller said Rose was experiencing “a mental crisis,” police said. It was later discovered Rose was “upset regarding out-of-state warrants” for three counts of aggravated assault in Louisiana.
Officers were told that Rose had several guns inside the home, the statement read. He refused to come out when police arrived, but at some point he escaped the home and ran away.
Police asked those living along Tara Glynn Drive to stay indoors as they searched for him.
The neighborhood is located just outside Lovejoy and across from Lovejoy High School. Clayton County Public Schools are on Thanksgiving break this week.
About 10 a.m., gunshots were heard about a mile and a half away in the area of the Walden Landing and Madison Heights apartments, both of which are close to a Home Depot, the department reported. As of Monday afternoon, police had not said where Rose was arrested. It also was not clear who fired the shots or if anyone was injured.
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