Man prompts standoff at Coweta County motel after shooting woman several times, deputies say

COWETA COUNTY, Ga. — Sheriff’s deputies in Coweta County are working to learn what led up to a woman being shot several times at a motel.

Deputies say that shortly after midnight, they were asked to do a welfare check on a woman at America’s Best Value Inn on Hwy. 29 S. When they arrived, they found a woman suffering from multiple gunshot wounds.

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She was airlifted to an Atlanta hospital. Her condition is unknown.

Deputies say a guest at the motel pointed them to the room the suspect, later identified as 36-year-old Timothy Leon Washington, had run into. SWAT teams spent 20 to 30 minutes trying to get him out of the room.

Washington was not armed during the short standoff. Deputies say his gun was found in the motel parking lot.

SWAT teams were able to take him into custody and charged him with aggravated assault, aggravated battery, possession of a firearm during the commission of a felony, possession of a firearm by a convicted felon and misdemeanor obstruction.

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