Victim in Cobb SWAT standoff arrested after police realized she was wanted in road rage assault

COBB COUNTY, Ga. — Police arrested the victim of a domestic dispute after they connected her to a road rage assault earlier the same day, police said.

Marietta police told Channel 2 Action News at 12:53 a.m., officers received reports of a shooting and screaming at an apartment complex on Franklin Gateway.

According to the investigation, five people were inside the apartment when someone started shooting.

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When officers got to the scene, two people left the apartment and said two men and a woman were fighting inside.

The three other people in the apartment refused to come out, prompting police to request SWAT to help negotiate their surrender.

Hours later, SWAT teams were able to coax the people out of the apartment.

Police said they realized one of the women they initially identified as a victim had been involved in a hit-and-run road rage assault earlier in the evening. She was identified as Amari Monique Perkins, 24.

Police said that at 8:30 p.m., Perkins hit another woman’s car on Franklin Gateway. Police said Perkinds followed the other driver down the road, stopped and got out of her car before punching and shoving the other driver.

Perkins then ran into the woods.

Officers issued a warrant charging Perkins with hit and run and simple battery.

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Later that night, police said Perkins got into a with her boyfriend at the apartment complex. Roland Cody Lopez, 23, was arrested and charged with burglary, criminal damage to property, terroristic threats, obstruction and reckless conduct after police said he forced himself inside the apartment and fired his gun.

Police said Perkins was drunk during both the hit-and-run and the domestic disturbance.

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Perkins and Lopez were both booked into the Cobb County jail.

The investigation remains ongoing.

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