{"id":16529,"date":"2020-07-15T11:33:03","date_gmt":"2020-07-15T15:33:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thegeorgiasun.com\/?p=16529"},"modified":"2023-09-24T15:47:11","modified_gmt":"2023-09-24T19:47:11","slug":"17-year-old-shot-by-cobb-police-officer-dies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/?p=16529","title":{"rendered":"17-year-old shot by Cobb Police officer dies"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A 17-year-old who was shot by the Cobb County Police Monday died in the hospital. The 17-year-old has been identified as Vincent Demario Truitt of Atlanta.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to the GBI, preliminary information indicates that at about 11:20 p.m., Monday, Cobb County Police officers located a stolen vehicle being driven in the vicinity of 291 Riverside Parkway in Austell.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The car was reported stolen in <a class=\"wpil_keyword_link\" href=\"\/city\/Atlanta\"   title=\"Atlanta\" data-wpil-keyword-link=\"linked\">Atlanta<\/a> earlier in the day. Officers attempted to conduct a traffic stop on the vehicle which was occupied by three men.&nbsp;The driver did not stop, and a chase ensued.&nbsp;The vehicle traveled behind a building located at 270 Riverside Parkway, which was a dead-end.&nbsp;<ins><\/ins><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When the vehicle stopped, two of the men ran and were pursued by officers.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to the GBI, during the incident, Truitt brandished a handgun and was shot by one of the Cobb County Police officers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Officers rendered medical aid on scene. Truitt was taken to Grady Memorial Hospital where he later died.<\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A 17-year-old who was shot by the Cobb County Police Monday died in the hospital. The 17-year-old has been identified as Vincent Demario Truitt of Atlanta. According to the GBI, preliminary information indicates that at about 11:20 p.m., Monday, Cobb County Police officers located a stolen vehicle being driven in the vicinity of 291 Riverside [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":16290,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"newspack_featured_image_position":"","newspack_post_subtitle":"","newspack_article_summary_title":"Overview:","newspack_article_summary":"","newspack_hide_updated_date":false,"newspack_show_updated_date":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[8486,8473,8513,8474],"class_list":["post-16529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-crime","tag-cobb-county","tag-media","tag-officer-involved-shooting","tag-sun","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16529","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16529"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16529\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16290"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}