Man with 6 Guns and Body Armor Arrested at Atlanta Grocery Store

Officers responded to the store at around 1:35 p.m. and met with management who said the armed man entered the store's restroom. Responding officers found the man and immediately detained him.

Days after 10 people were shot and killed at a grocery store in Boulder, Colorado, employees were alarmed when a man armed with multiple weapons entered the Publix in Atlantic Station on Wednesday. 

Officers responded to the store at around 1:35 p.m. and met with management who said the armed man entered the store's restroom. Responding officers found the man and immediately detained him, they told 11 Alive.

Officers discovered he had six guns—a shotgun, a rifle, and four handguns—and body armor.

Atlanta officers took six guns off the suspect. (Photo: Atlanta PD)Atlanta officers took six guns off the suspect. (Photo: Atlanta PD)

Atlanta Police later said the 22-year-old man was taken into custody and charged with five counts of criminal attempt-aggravated assault and six counts of possession of a firearm during commission of a felony.

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