A woman died after being hit by a vehicle while walking in a roadway early Sunday in Mableton, Cobb County police said.
Vanessa Ordonez De Los Santos, 31, of Mableton, was walking in the northbound lanes of Mableton Parkway near South Gordon Road around 5:30 a.m. when she was hit by a Nissan Xterra also traveling northbound, investigators said.
She was transported by ambulance to WellStar Cobb Hospital, where she was pronounced dead just before 9 a.m., Officer Mike Bowman said in a news release.
Driver Milton Ariaz, 60, also of Mableton, was not injured in the collision. He was charged with driving without a valid Georgia driver’s license and taken to the Cobb County Adult Detention Center.
No additional charges are expected in the case, Bowman said.
Anyone with information on the incident should call Cobb police at 770-499-3987.
Black Hawk helicopter finds safety in residential area
It seemed like a normal Sunday for Stacey Schrader and her family as they went to church. When they returned to their Lilburn home however, there was something not quite right about what they saw.
“There were two Black Hawk helicopters in the field across from our house,” she said in a phone interview with The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
Gwinnett County police said one of the helicopters had to make an emergency landing near the 4800 block of Five Forks Trickum Road. A Georgia National Guard spokesperson told Channel 2 Action News that a cockpit warning light came on.
Police said no injuries were reported and a second helicopter arrived to assist the temporarily disabled bird.
The pilots were able the fly the helicopter back to Clay National Guard Center near Marietta, officials told Channel 2.
“Our neighbors were home when it happened,” Schrader said. “They said the helicopter seemed to lose control just about five feet above the pine tree at the corner of our house.”
Schrader said her neighbors watched the helicopter bounce a few times before it finally settled into the field across from her home.
DeKalb SWAT standoff ends in suicide
A SWAT standoff in DeKalb County ended with a suicide Saturday night, Channel 2 Action News reported.
Officers were called to the house on South Deshon Road near Lithonia at about 4 p.m. Saturday, according to police.
The situation began when police escorted a man to the home to deal with a dispute over belongings. The man called the person inside, who hung up. Officers heard gunfire inside the home, then saw someone open and close the door, according to Channel 2.
SWAT officers blocked off the neighborhood for hours.
DeKalb police said one person died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound and one person was brought out of the home safely, Channel 2 said.
Staff writers Michelle Shaw and April Hunt contributed to this article
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