Cobb woman killed by police

Officers report the woman making suicidal threats made “a very distinctive overt action toward them with” a handgun.

EAST COBB — A 32-year-old woman is dead and her 3-year-old daughter has been removed from the home after a police-involved shooting in East Cobb.

Officers responded to a 911 call about a woman making suicidal threats around 12:22 p.m. Tuesday at a home on Robin Hood Place off Roswell Road, said Sgt. Dana Pierce, spokesman for Cobb Police.

Pierce said the officers spoke to a woman at the front door, but the woman left and came back with a handgun.

“She did make a very distinctive overt action toward them with that weapon, and that’s why they felt as though they were at risk of serious bodily injury or death, and that’s why (they) fired on her,” Pierce said.

Pierce said four officers were on the scene, and three were involved with shooting the woman. He said they gave her first aid and she was transported to a local hospital, but did not survive.

While the officers were applying first aid, Pierce said the girl was taken from the house and handed to a nearby family member.

Pierce said it is still early in the investigation, but he does not believe the woman fired on the officers. He said the department had received similar 911 calls to this residence and the responding officers were aware of that history.

Pierce said the GBI will be taking the lead in the investigation, as procedure dictates in officerinvolved shootings. He said the evidence they will look at will include video of the shooting.

Ross Williams, Marietta Daily Journal

Police: Man allowed meth sales in his mother’s home

MARIETTA — A Marietta man accused of exploiting his mother, who has Alzheimer’s, by allowing methamphetamine to be trafficked out of her home, has been arrested.

The arrest began when police received an anonymous tip about illegal drug activity near the intersection of Chicopee Drive and Cherokee Street around midnight on Monday. A man there was searched, and he and his car were both found to have narcotics and drug paraphernalia.

The car was parked in the driveway of a home belonging to an elderly woman several of the officers had visited before. They recognized her as an Alzheimer’s patient and decided to check on her.

Officers said multiple suspicious items appearing to be narcotics were in plain sight at the house, and several additional people were there as well.

Search warrants were secured and 65 grams of methamphetamine were seized along with heroin, marijuana and assorted drug paraphernalia.

The woman’s son, Gordon Scott Hobday of Marietta, is charged with felony possession of methamphetamine and felony elder exploitation. John Alexander Franklyn of Marietta is charged with felony methamphetamine trafficking, felony heroin possession, felony elder exploitation and misdemeanor marijuana charges. Thomas David Summers of Acworth is charged with felony methamphetamine possession. Marietta Daily Journal

Solar company wants to partner with Trion

TRION — Trion could use solar energy to help power its wastewater treatment plant. That’s the pitch the town council heard last Thursday from representatives of United Renewable Energy.

William Silva and Mike Jolley presented the council with information about their company, Alpharetta-based United Renewable Energy LLC.

They proposed a joint-partnership with the town and said they could produce solar energy on a 10-acre site near the plant.

Council heard the presentation and the information packets to study.

Mayor Larry Stansell later told the Summerville News that the WWTP spends about $80,000 a month on electricity.

Jimmy Espy, Summerville News