Negotiations are underway with the gunman, Cobb County Police Sergeant. Wayne Delk said. Officers are on the scene in the upper middle class Newcastle neighborhood, about 20 miles north of downtown Atlanta.
Someone called at 9:30 a.m. saying the shots were fired, and when officers arrived a man was shooting inside and outside the home, Said Delk. The gunman is believed to be alone, he said.
Jodi Reed, who has lived in the neighborhood since 1982, is an early riser and was cleaning her garage at the time when she heard an explosion and assumed it was construction or fireworks, she said.
Several police vehicles were later driven, he said. There were squad vehicles in each seal-de-sac at midnight and police were telling residents to stay away, he said.
Reed lives behind the residence where the gunman is barricaded and will look for a home if not for the thick woods, he said.
She said, “I couldn’t talk to Disha (Bang). I would never assume it was a bullet,” she said, making no sound or hearing any noise.
She later heard multiple bangs but could not confirm they were shelling, she said.
“Barricaded Gunmen / Shelters in Place,” Cobb County Police said in a tweet. “All the neighbors on Kingsley Dr between Castle Lane and Vineyard Court need shelter in their homes.”
A SWAT team was dispatched to the subdivision, Dalek said. No injuries were reported.
Reed described the subdivision as “the quietest, safest neighborhood” and said she remembers the last crime when someone stole a flower hook from a neighbor’s mailbox a few months ago.
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