Crime & Safety

Cops: Man Pulls Syringe on East Cobb Walmart Employee

A loss prevention employee confronted David Leonard in the parking lot after he allegedly walked out of the store without paying for a $398 HP desktop computer, according to a Cobb County criminal warrant.

An Atlanta man allegedly tried to stab an employee at the East Cobb Walmart Supercenter on Johnson Ferry Road with a syringe.

About 6:30 p.m. Thursday, a loss prevention employee confronted David Leonard in the parking lot after he allegedly walked out of the store without paying for a $398 HP desktop computer, according to a Cobb County criminal warrant.

In the parking lot, Leonard allegedly reached into his right jacket pocket, pulled out a syringe and raised it toward the loss prevention employee, a Cobb County police officer wrote in the warrant.

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"After looking at said victim, and then looking down at the syringe, said accused then did take the top cap off the syringe, exposing the needle, and did lunge forward at said victim," he wrote.

Leonard missed the loss prevention employee and ran toward a wooded area across the street to hide, records show.

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He was arrested that evening on charges of aggravated assault and theft by shoplifting. He is in the Cobb County Adult Detention Center without bond.


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