DeKalb County police have arrested a gunman accused of shooting a SWAT officer on Thursday. Two others are also now in custody following a 4-hour standoff at an apartment complex.
The shooting happened Thursday afternoon in the area of Glenwood Road and Columbia Drive. The officer is stable at Grady Memorial Hospital.
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DeKalb police were assisting Cobb County police searching for an armed robbery suspect when they say Tremagne McCluskey opened fire.
At least a dozen police cruisers could be spotted by NewsChopper 2. Witnesses at the scene told Channel 2’s Ashli Lincoln they heard gunfire.
“The amount of police officers I seen, I knew it was bad,” said one neighbor.
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Police said McCluskey ran from the scene, but was later taken into custody by SWAT team officers.
DeKalb County Chief Communications Officer Dionna Smith said SWAT units and patrol officers stayed on the scene because two others barricaded inside an apartment.
Officers took them into custody hours later. Their names have not been released. McCluskey faces charges of aggravated assault on an officer, as well as his previous charges of armed robbery and gun possession.
DeKalb County CEO Lorraine Cochran-Johnson told Channel 2’s Mark Winne the officer is stable and in good spirits.
“Everyone is thankful and praying,” Cochran-Johnson told Winne.
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