Inside the Police Reports: Avoid Flailing a Gun When Approaching Police

Lilburn Patch takes a deeper look into recent crime reports in Lilburn, this week reported by the Gwinnett Police Department.

A house party turns violent - Police responded to a possible domestic call on March 26 at apartment 907 of a Lilburn apartment complex. However, once the police arrived, the complaintant said she was fine and did not need their assistance.  She previously was having a dispute with her neighbors about, in her words, "baby mama drama." 

As the police left the building, the room mate of the original complaintant rushed out to tell that her friend's head was gushing blood.  When officers re-entered the home, she was indeed bleeding from the back of her head.  She had no recollection of what happened and was very intoxicated. She smelled strongly of alcohol and there were beer cans littered all over the apartment.  The officer called an ambulance to make sure her head was OK and left the scene.

Before they departed, however, they noted a red SUV parking in front of the original complaintant's apartment.  Sensing the potential for violence, the officers remained parked in front of the complex.  They soon held screams issuing from the apartment and ran to the scene.  Officers observed two or three people carrying someone out of the apartment and ordered them to stop.  A fight had clearly broken out, and two men were injured, while officers arrested two others for disorderly conduct and took them into custody.  

Domestic dispute takes a turn for the worse - On March 24, two officers responded to a domestic dispute at a home on Dogwood Drive in Lilburn.  The complainant was sitting in a blue SUV when the officers arrived and told them that "she was done with him and tired of him threatening and abusing her."  She said that her boyfriend was very drunk and she wanted to leave, but he would not give her the keys to her vehicle.

The officers walked with the female complaintant to an outbuilding beside the house.  Her boyfriend saw them approach and immediately began to flail his hands and yell obscenities.  He held a black handgun in his right hand. 

The boyfriend began to wave his gun around as he continued shouting obscenities.  The officers issued a verbal command ordering him to drop his weapon but he did not comply.  He pointed his weapon in the direction of the officers. 

The officer observed that the weapon was a semi-automatic handgun, and determining that he was drunk, agitated and refused to drop his weapon, the officer feared that he would open fire on either the officers or his girlfriend. The officer then made the decision to shoot the suspect.

Gwinnett PD arrived and treated the suspect for his injuries and then transported to Gwinnett Medical Center.  

The scene was turned over to the Criminal Investigations Division.