The Georgia Bureau of Investigation announced Wednesday that the agency is looking into an officer shooting at a Kennesaw mall that resulted in the death of a 25-year-old Alabama man.
Cobb police officers were called to Town Center Mall at 2 p.m. after a department store employee reported a shoplifting incident.
According to GBI officials, when officers arrived at the location, they saw a man who matched the caller’s description walking across the mall parking lot.
The officers reported that when they attempted to make contact, the man, later identified as Cortez Eatmon, began to run away.
After Eatmon refused verbal commands to stop running from one officer, another officer then tried unsuccessfully to tase the suspect multiple times.
