GBI identifies suspect shot by Woodstock police in retention pond – FOX 5 Atlanta

GBI identifies suspect shot by Woodstock police in retention pond  FOX 5 Atlanta

The Georgia Bureau of Investigation (GBI) have identified a 38-year-old Roswell man as the suspect shot and wounded by Woodstock police after he allegedly threatened to open fire from inside a retention pond Thursday evening.Officers were dispatched around 6:48 p.m. Thursday to a call reporting a suspicious person near Paden Street and Maple Street, according to the Woodstock Police Department.Officers located the man, identified by the Georgia Bureau of Investigation as 38-year-old Nijm Scott, sitting inside a retention pond near a walking trail. According to the GBI, Scott threatened to shoot anyone who approached him and warned that he was going to start shooting. State investigators said Scott then made a sudden movement, prompting officers to fire at him and strike him.GBI officials said officers pulled Scott from the water, where emergency medical crews from the Woodstock Fire Department and Cherokee County Fire & Rescue treated his injuries at the scene.

Scott was taken to a local hospital and is stable, the GBI confirmed.Both the GBI and Woodstock police confirmed that two officers sustained non-life-threatening injuries during the encounter and were treated at an area hospital. Woodstock police noted that deputies with the Cherokee County Sheriff's Office and troopers with the Georgia State Patrol also responded to the scene to assist.Scott faces local charges of felony terroristic threats and felony