BREAKING NEWS: Man is detained after taking five guns and body armor into a Publix supermarket in Atlanta
- Unidentified man was detained by Atlanta authorities on Wednesday afternoon
- Police said he entered the Atlanta Station Publix with five guns and body armor
- He was carrying two long guns and three pistols that were mostly concealed
- Authorities said they are still questioning the man, who is also expected to receive a mental health evaluation; he has not been identified
Atlanta authorities detained a man Wednesday afternoon after he walked into a Publix supermarket with five guns and body armor.
Officer Anthony Grant told the Atlanta Journal-Constitution that a witness at the Atlanta Station Publix saw the man with the weapons and ‘alerted store management who then notified police’ just after 1.30pm.
When police arrived, the manager told them that the man had walked in with a rifle and headed toward the bathroom.
Atlanta authorities detained a man Wednesday afternoon after he walked into a Publix supermarket (right, file image) with five guns and body armor
Responding officers saw the man trying to leave the bathroom quickly before being detained.
He was carrying two long guns and three pistols that were mostly concealed.
Authorities said they are still questioning the man, who is also expected to receive a mental health evaluation. He has not been identified.
The incident comes just two days after a gunman killed 10 people, including a police officer, at a King Soopers supermarket in Boulder, Colorado,
It also comes just a little over a week after a gunman killed eight people, mostly Asian Americans, in Atlanta.
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