Around the Region: Officer Struck Twice in Chase, Teen Killed in SWAT Standoff and Police Search for Kidnappers

– Cartersville Patch

A  officer in his patrol car was "slightly" injured during a Monday police chase that ended with the fleeing vehicle twice striking the police car, Lt. Mark Camp said.

It began at a convenience store at Tennessee and Felton streets and continued north on U.S. 411 to Tractor Supply, where officers reported the driver had "rammed" a police car.

The officer, who said, "I got hit two times," according to police scanner traffic provided by Bartow Scanner, was taken to , treated for a possible concussion and released, Camp said. 

Jonathan Ray Adams, 24, of East Rocky Street in White, who was arrested and charged in connection with the 7:30 p.m. chase, faces multiple counts of 14 different alleged criminal offenses or traffic violations.

– Woodstock-Town Lake Patch

A 16-year-old boy was killed Tuesday evening in the Eagle Watch subdivision during a standoff with the  SWAT team.

The standoff began when the teen's mother called 911 and said she was being held hostage, WSB reported.

Lt. Jay Baker, spokesman for the sheriff's office, said the officers arrived at 5:50 p.m. at 921 Laurel Crest Drive to find Messina armed with a .357 Magnum revolver.

The mother was safely out of the house before the shooting, which is being investigated by the Georgia Bureau of Investigation as a standard procedure.

"Negotiators, who had worked their way very close to the front door witnessed the suspect pouring alcohol on the curtains inside the home and heard him threaten to burn the home," Baker said.

Baker said after approximately an hour of negotiations, the suspect either fired his weapon through the glass in the front door or broke the glass with his firearm. This was when the sniper across the street fired a single, fatal shot from his rifle in Messina's abdomen.

– East Atlanta Patch

Atlanta police are looking a man who kidnapped a woman at gunpoint in Edgewood early Wednesday morning. She later escaped.

Separately, investigators are looking for the man — possibly the same gunman — who attempted to kidnap a woman in Reynoldstown.

The Edgewood victim described the suspect as black, 5'7" inches tall, thin, with dreadlocks. He wore a black facemask and blue hoodie. The Reynoldstown victim described her attacker as a small, black man about 5'6" tall and weighing 130 pounds who was wearing a white tee shirt and had shoulder-length dreadlocks.