Cobb County Police Officers fatally shot a man who police said was armed and involved in a possible domestic dispute Saturday.
The Georgia Bureau of Investigation is investigating the incident, according to a news release from the agency.
GBI’s initial report states Cobb police received a 911 call just before 4 p.m. about an incident in a home on Michael Drive. A neighbor called and reported that a woman at that home said her boyfriend had physically assaulted her and threatened her with a weapon.
Police arrived and found the man and woman in the driveway of the house. The man had a handgun, according to GBI. During the incident, officers shot the man several times, and he died at the scene, Cobb Police Chief Stuart VanHoozer said. Neither Cobb police nor the GBI have provided other details about what led to the shooting.
GBI said the man who died was Murdock Jackson, 33, of Carrollton. Media reports state the woman at the house was medically treated at the scene but wasn’t hospitalized.
“We definitely do not want things to end this way,” VanHoozer told reporters at the scene. “The officers don’t want to see it end this way. Shootings are hard on officers, I’m not sure everyone really understands that. But it’s hard, even in defense, to use fatal force against an individual — against a human being.”
He asked the community to keep the man who was killed, his family and the officers in their thoughts and prayers.
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