Crime & Safety
NE Cobb Man Shot Self in Stolen SUV
Joshua Ganley has been identified as the man Woodstock police pulled over near the Cobb-Cherokee line Thursday.
A man who shot himself after stopped him in a stolen vehicle has been identified as Joshua Richard Ganley, 27, of Northeast Cobb, The Marietta Daily Journal reports.
A Woodstock officer pulled over a 2001 Nissan Frontier at Farm Ridge Drive and Canton Highway near the Cobb-Cherokee line Thursday around 1 p.m., Woodstock police spokeswoman Brittany Duncan said.
"When the driver was asked to exit the vehicle, he reached for a gun and shot himself in the chest," Duncan said, according to Woodstock-Towne Lake Patch. "While being treated on scene, he was alert, conscious and transported to ."
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Ganley is recovering at WellStar Kennestone Hospital in Marietta after surgery Friday morning, Duncan told the MDJ.
The SUV he was driving Thursday was stolen Tuesday from a house in the 3000 block of Bells Ferry Road in northern Cobb County, told the newspaper.
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Ganley is being charged with theft by receiving stolen property.
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