Roswell man accused of shooting his mom’s boyfriend surrenders after standoff
Man accused of shooting mother's boyfriend surrenders
Police shut down a neighborhood in Roswell after they say a gunman barricaded himself and his mother in their home. This after police say he shot her mother’s boyfriend. The suspect is in custody and the man he is accused of shooting is in the hospital.
ROSWELL, Ga. - A man surrendered after a SWAT standoff lasting about two and a half hours at a Roswell home on Friday after that police say stem from a shooting.
Officers went out to the home near the corner of Grove Way and Forest Street before 2:30 p.m. after receiving a 911 call about a shooting.
When they got there, they found a man laying in the front yard.
"Oh my God, Jesus, I said is this really happening?" next-door neighbor Matrice Lowe told FOX 5. "Is this really happening where I stay at right now?"
Lowe said she just left her home to pick her daughter up from school. When they came back, they encountered the standoff.
"When I came home I saw yellow tape everywhere, I seen police cars everywhere," Lowe said, adding that she knows the suspected shooter. "He’s quiet, he’s to himself," she said. "You always see him walking his dog, but I have never seen any bad confrontation out of him or anything."
Police say the suspect stayed with his mother inside the home until they convinced him to surrender. Investigators say that the victim is the mother’s boyfriend.
"He refused officers’ commands to come out and surrendered himself so SWAT was essentially activated," said Sgt. Thomas Robinson.
The victim, whose name has not been released, was taken to a nearby hospital with gunshot wounds to his shoulder and thigh. Police expect him to recover.
"At that time, they started to address the suspected gunman, who went back inside the residence and barricaded himself inside," said Sgt. Robinson. "And he refused officers’ commands to come out and surrender."
Just after 5 p.m., the man surrendered to authorities. Sgt. Robinson said officers deployed a taser on him.
The suspect, whose name has not been released, was taken to an area hospital to be checked out.
The man’s mother was also transported to the hospital for a hand injury.
Investigators say the man and his mother live at the home. They believe the incident started over a domestic dispute.
The incident remains under investigation and charges are pending.