One witness allegedly told police “he heard clicking sounds from the bathroom stall” in the store.
A man was arrested Wednesday after entering a Publix supermarket in Atlanta carrying six loaded firearms and wearing body armor, police said. The man, who Atlanta police have identified as 22-year-old Rico Marley, was charged Thursday with five counts of criminal attempt to commit a felony and six counts of possession of a firearm during commission of or attempt to commit certain felonies. Police did not provide specific evidence that Marley planned to carry out a shooting at the store that day. But the incident occurred in the wake of two mass shootings that have shaken the nation and prompted widespread calls for gun reform: the in Boulder, Colorado, that, and a at three Atlanta-area spas that killed eight. On Thursday, police released a photo of the weapons Marley was allegedly carrying when he was arrested. Atlanta police said Wednesday that a preliminary investigation revealed that Marley entered the store Wednesday afternoon openly carrying a rifle and entered a bathroom.
