The GBI is investigating a use-of-force case in Cobb County involving a man’s death. The review is being conducted at the request of Cobb police.
Cobb Police say they were called to a reported hit-and-run accident on Powder Springs Road in West Cobb at about 6:10 p.m. Tuesday. An officer encountered a man later identified as 47-year-old Timothy Lyle Sheats of Dallas, Georgia, walking in the road. He told an officer he had been shot, but the officer spotted no apparent injuries.
The officer then asked Sheats to get into his patrol car as a safety measure. Police say Sheats refused and began walking into traffic, at one point attempting to enter a passing car…