Overview
- Officers responding around 6:10 p.m. to a reported hit-and-run found 47-year-old Timothy Lyle Sheats walking in the roadway.
- Police say Sheats claimed he had been shot, showed no visible injuries, and refused to get into a patrol car.
- According to the GBI, an officer used a Taser to stop Sheats from entering traffic after he tried to get into a passing vehicle.
- Backup officers restrained Sheats, who became unresponsive shortly afterward, and he was later pronounced dead at a hospital.
- The GBI opened a use-of-force investigation to be sent to the Cobb County district attorney; no officers were reported injured and those involved have not been identified.