Argument Leads To Shooting At One Hotel, Standoff At Another: Police

DOUGLASVILLE, GA — A lovers’ argument that led to gunshots at one hotel and a SWAT standoff at another ended Tuesday with the arrest of the accused shooter, authorities said.

Garland Dwight Wilson, 29, was charged with aggravated assault after shooting his girlfriend, Tyesha Renee Smith, 23, according to a news release from the Douglasville Police Department. Smith was found with gunshot wounds just before 1 a.m. Tuesday in the lobby of the Comfort Inn on Westmoreland Plaza.

According to police, the shooting followed an argument in the couple’s room at the Days Inn next door. Smith fled the room, and Wilson followed her to the Comfort Inn, where he fired four or five shots at her. Wilson then returned to the Days Inn, where he barricaded himself in a room “rented by acquaintances of his,” police said.

After securing the area, a SWAT team got Wilson to surrender just after 8 a.m. Wilson was charged with aggravated assault. Other charges are pending, according to police.

Smith was treated for non-life-threatening injuries Tuesday at Grady Memorial Hospital in Atlanta. She was released the same day, police said.