Police Looking For Truck Shooting Paintballs At People In East Cobb

EAST COBB, GA -- Somebody in East Cobb has been shooting paintballs at passing cars and road workers, according to authorities. Cobb County police are looking for a group purportedly in a black pickup truck.

The incidents have taken place over the last few days, leaving vehicles, including some belonging to law enforcement officers, splattered with paint. (To get notified of more local news like this, click here to sign up for the East Cobb Patch. Or find your Atlanta-area town here. Or, if you have an iPhone, download the free Patch app.)

Cobb police said that the incidents have stretched from the weekend and into the week.

"Vehicles and people were both targets of someone shooting paintballs from a moving vehicle, a black pickup truck," Cobb police spokeswoman Alicia Chilton told Patch on Thursday. "There were several incidents over the weekend (06/16) into earlier this week."

She said that cases have been assigned to detectives, and they are working on it.

A group of landscapers on Lower Roswell Road near Johnson Ferry were one of those targeted when a black Dodge Ram sped by, according to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.

One of the workers posits that a group of young people are behind the antics. “Bunch of juvenile delinquents (who) got nothing better to do than terrorize hard-working men,” Frank Bryant told WSB-TV. He added that shooting a paint gun at someone "could cause serious harm or bodily injury to somebody or cause a wreck.”

The TV station says that Roswell police are also on the hunt for the pickup truck.

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