David Edmond

Name:
Edmond, David Samuel Jr

Date of Booking:
05/06/2025

Reason(s) For Booking:
Aggravated Assault – Peace Officer – Firearm

Aggravated Assault – Peace Officer – Firearm

Aggravated Assault – Peace Officer – Firearm

Aggravated Assault – Peace Officer – Firearm

Battery

Terroristic Threats And Acts – Felony

Possession Of Firearm Or Knife During Commission Of Or Attem

Officer’s Narrative:
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On 05/05/2025, I responded to [200 BLOCK] Slater King Dr. Apt. [REDACTED] in reference to a complainant that wanted to speak with a supervisor about a disorderly conduct that Cpl. Price and Cpl. Newberry were going charge him with. Once I arrived on the scene, Cpl. Price stated that they responded to that location in reference to a disorderly conduct. Cpl. Price stated that when they arrived on the scene, they made contact with one of the witnesses, [WITNESS #1], and she stated that she was inside of her apartment ([200 BLOCK] Slater King Dr. Apt. [REDACTED]) when she heard some noises coming from the outside. Cpl. Newberry stated that [WITNESS #1] told them the suspect, who was later identified as David Edmond, told her “yeah, I just knocked that fu*k ni*ga out.” Cpl. Newberry further stated that [WITNESS #1] said her boyfriend, [VICTIM #1] (victim) stood up and attempted to fight David but he ended up leaving the scene and didn’t want to pursue charges. Cpl. Newberry stated that he told Mrs. [WITNESS #1] in order for [VICTIM #1] to not want to pursue charges on David, he needed to be present on the scene to tell them he did not want to press charges.

Cpl. Newberry went on to say that while they were talking to [WITNESS #1], a red in color Nissan drove by and she [WITNESS #1] identified the vehicle and stated that David Edmond was driving it and he said that he told him (David) to meet them on the other side of the apartment complex where they live. Cpl. Newberry stated that he and Cpl. Price made contact with David and according to Cpl. Price, he noticed that Mr. Edmond had a firearm in his pants and advised him to take it inside of his residence. Cpl. Newberry did say that David came back outside and while they were trying to talk to him, he became irate and he was speaking to them in a loud tone. Cpl. Newberry stated that David continued to talk to them in a loud tone and apparently started talking about an incident that occurred three days ago that they weren’t familiar with. Cpl. Newberry stated that he told Mr. Edmond to go inside of his residence to get his identification card or drivers license and he became more irate about that issue. Cpl. Newberry advised that they were talking to David’s girlfriend and they noticed that it was taking him a long time to come back with his ID. Cpl. Newberry stated that they followed David’s girlfriend (unknown name) to the apartment, and when they approached the door, David retrieved the gun again and it was in his pocket. Cpl Newberry said that David closed the door and started yelling at them from the inside saying that he’s going to exercise his 2nd Amendment rights by using his firearm if he has to.

After talking to Cpl. Newberry and Cpl. Price., I approached the door and knocked on it several times before Mr. Edmond acknowledged my knocks and I asked him did he want to talk to a supervisor about what was going on. David attempted to talk to me from behind the door and I advised him that I wasn’t going to be able to assist him if he didn’t open the door to talk to me face to face. David continued to talk to me from behind the door so I made contact with [VICTIM #1] about this incident. [VICTIM #1] stated that he was sitting on his side of the porch, where he live, drinking beer and talking to some neighbors when he was approached by David. [VICTIM #1] stated that they did say a few words to each other and then all of a sudden David puched him in the face and he fell to the ground. [VICTIM #1] said that when he fell, his face hit the ground causing a laceration above his right eye and a busted lip. David overheard the conversation that I was having with [VICTIM #1] so he opened the window to his apartment and intervened in on our conversation and started talking loud and again saying that he’s gonna exercise his 2nd Amendment rights if nothing doesn’t get done about what was going on in the apartment complex.

After talking to [VICTIM #1], he walked off and I continued to try to get David to come outside and talk to me. While he (David) was trying to talk and get his point across about what happened, I did see what appeared to be the butt of a long gun between him and the window that he was talking to me from and again, I told him that I wasn’t gonna talk to him from the window and that he needed to come outside to talk to me since he was complaining on the officers that were on scene. David got upset and closed the window and refused to say anything else to me.

After the interaction with David, I made contact with Lt. Taylor and he responded to the scene. Once Lt. Taylor arrived on scene, I briefed him on what was going on and he made attempts as well to have David to come out to talk to us, but he did the same thing with Lt. Taylor and wanted to talk to him through the door. Lt. Taylor told David that he wasn’t going to talk to him through the door and he needed to come outside to talk to us about what was going on. David refused to come outside while Lt. Taylor was talking to him through the door and he (Lt. Taylor) went to get a key for the apartment to gain entry and moments later, Lt. Arline arrived on the scene.

Lt. Taylor advised me to make contact with Ptl. Whitus because he has the shield and he stated that we were gonna make an attempt to open the door so that we could communicate with David about the incident. Once Ptl. Whitus and Ptl. Wiley arrived on scene, we briefed on how we were gonna approach the residence and gain entry into the apartment. After briefing about the entry attempt, Ptl. Whitus was the lead man with the shield and Cpl. Price was second behind Ptl. Whitus with the key to open the door. Once the officers approached the apartment and before gaining entry, they announced themselves and told David that they were coming in. Once Cpl. Price opened the door, shots were fired from inside the home by David and Cpl. Price announced that he had been shot in the arm. Ptl. Whitus dropped the shield and grabbed Cpl. Price and they ran upstairs for cover. Ptl. Whitus kept us notified that Cpl. Price was conscious and breathing but was losing a lot of blood. Everyone that was on scene backed out from the apartment and took cover because we didn’t know what David’s intentions were when he fired the shots and Cpl. Price being struck by a bullet.

Moments later, more officers and EMS responded to the scene as well as Cpl. Woodall the negotiator and he made contact with David by phone and he was giving instructions on what he wanted David to do. Cpl. Woodall advised David that we needed to get in the area to remove the wounded officer and he (David) allowed several officers to come remove Cpl. Price from the scene so that he can get treated for his injuries by EMS. Moments later, Cpl. Woodall told David to let his girlfriend and the kids out so they won’t be harmed as well and they ended up coming out of the apartment unharmed.

The command staff as well as the SWAT team members responded to the scene and the scene was turned over to them. After negotiating with David to surrender, he finally came out of the apartment and was taken into custody without further incident.

This case is turned over to Sgt. Brown in the investigations bureau.

GBI did respond to the scene for scene processing and evidence collecting.

[End of Narrative]