SANDY SPRINGS, Ga. — Police shot a man near a busy intersection in North Fulton County on Thursday morning after a woman made a call for help.
The investigation blocked Dunwoody Place near Roswell Road in Sandy Springs.
The call came just after 10:30 a.m. Thursday.
Sandy Springs police said a woman was assaulted along Dunwoody Place and called 911. She had left the scene by the time officers showed up.
“Officers arrived on scene and made contact with the possible offender. While interviewing the offender, the offender pulled a weapon on the officers, and an officer shot the offender,” Sgt. Leon Millholland with the Sandy Springs Police Department said.
Millholland told Channel 2’s Bryan Mims that the weapon the man pulled was a gun.
Georgia Bureau of Investigation identified the man Thursday night as LaAndre Marktanne Thomas, 27, of Jackson, Mississippi, who was injured. He was taken to the hospital and is in critical condition.
GBI said it will conduct an independent investigation, which will be turned over to the Fulton County District Attorney’s Office for review.
The shooting happened as Reginald Keely was at work. He owns The Kode Barbershop right across the street.
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“We noticed the police pull up to a man who was walking down the street casually. They didn’t pull up on him aggressively. They got out of the car and started having a conversation with him. It looked like a casual, everyday conversation,” Keely said.
He said he went back to work, then heard two gunshots. That’s when he, along with his staff and customers, ran outside.
Keely said he wanted to make sure the man was getting help, but police kept him and others back.
An ambulance did take the man to the hospital.
Keely said he had sometimes seen the man walking in the area.
Police say the shooting was captured on the officers’ body cameras.
They also plan to use traffic and security cameras in the area to investigate the assault and shooting.
“In an unfortunate incident like this, the cameras can be used to pull up evidence and see exactly what happened. That’s the world we live in,” Millholland said.
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