Cobb Reporter

Cobb County police have two men in custody after a pair of sheriff’s deputies were ambushed while serving an arrest warrant.

According to a recent report by FOX 5 Atlanta, two were taken into custody after a nearly four-hour standoff.

"From my understanding, the deputies had made an attempt at the home, knocked on the door, rang the doorbell, (and) no one came to the (door)," Cobb County Sheriff Craig Owens told FOX 5 Atlanta. "As they were getting back to their car, the vehicle drove up, and they assumed it was the suspect who lived there, and as they got back to the car - as he got into his car - shots were fired."

During the standoff, the Hampton Glen Court neighborhood where the shooting took place was on lockdown, and officers statewide converged on the scene to check on the condition of the fallen officers. 

Officers went to the home where the shooting occurred looking to serve an arrest warrant on at least one of the suspects on a failure to appear in court on a theft by deception charge, prompting authorities to lament such levels of violence never needed to happen. 

The deputies are the first two law enforcement officers killed this year in Georgia by gunfire and the first deaths in the line of duty since Owens took office as sheriff 18 months ago. According to Owens, both officers had been with the sheriff’s office for substantially more than five years.