Man with 5 guns, body armor arrested inside Publix at Atlantic Station, police say

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Source: WSB-TV Atlanta

March 24, 2021 at 6:37 pm EDT
By WSBTV.com News Staff

ATLANTA — Atlanta police say they arrested a man who brought multiple guns into the Publix grocery store at Atlantic Station Wednesday afternoon.

They have now cleared the store and are investigating a suspicious package at the store.

Investigators say the man, identified as 22-year-old Rico Marley, walked into the store just after 1:30 p.m. holding a rifle. He then went into the bathroom. A witness told us he was inside the bathroom and saw Marley with a rifle in the stall behind him. He quickly alerted store management, who called police. As Marley exited the bathroom, officers arrested him.

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[Lunabell]

1. Well hell, according to the GQP he might have been one of the good guys.

You know, only the good guys carry guns into a grocery store.

[ArizonaLib]

2. Yes! Where is the NRA?

Even they know it is public endangerment to haul an arsenal into a grocery store while wearing body armor.

[BlueWavePsych]

30. Yup

[bucolic_frolic]

3. Alarming that he got as far as the bathroom

What is it about retail stores? Used to be Walmart, now it's supermarkets. They must like the aisles that gives them shelter and they can chase people down. They're never or rarely out in open spaces - parks, golf courses.

[ShazzieB]

14. Of course they like enclosed spaces.

It's easier to shoot fish in a barrel than try to get them swimming around in a big body of water, isn't it?

[quakerboy]

15. Whos gonna stop him?

[OldCicero]

4. Rico doesn't look like your typical white supremacist

Link to tweet

I could be wrong though.

[oldsoftie]

8. neither does the idiot in Colorado.

[OldCicero]

10. Which is pretty much why I posted that.

Prevents someone from jumping to an embarrassing conclusion and posting it for all the internet to see.

[Steelrolled]

12. What? That would never happen!

[oldsoftie]

21. Hahahahahaha! I'm reminded of SO many of those instances......

And if i post any some douche would complain.

[GB_RN]

29. Maybe Now The GOPQ

Will do something about gun control. I mean, for the GOPQ, it’s one thing for good, law-abiding, White people to have all the guns they want. But THIS is a whole different ball game for them.🙄

[Talitha]

5. They do it because they CAN, and it's time to put an end to this crap.

[bluestarone]

6. Were they doing vaccinations there

Just wondering.

[Karma13612]

33. Churches

I know this post is late to the party, but I read the locked thread regarding this near-miss shooting at Publix.

In your answer to someone questioning the trigger for these events, you responded that it could be churches.

You might be on to something!

I happened on a video on Facebook for an Assembly of God inspirational event. I’m not religious so I have no clue what it’s called, but it wasn’t a Sunday worship service, more like a stage show with lots of singing and spreading “His” word.

What stood out to me very vividly was this phrase the speaker kept talking about:

“Man your battle stations”

This was back in December 2020. The speaker seemed to imply there was an urgency and she was inspiring the audience to be ready for something coming soon.

Maybe like an insurrection???

[cactusfractal]

7. If their gun policy is anything like their mask policy...

They encourage customers to leave their guns at home, but can't really do anything to prevent guns.

Sorry ¯_(ツ _/¯

[oldsoftie]

9. Publix has a mask policy on every door.

[ShazzieB]

11. HOLY F*CKING SH*T!!!

THANK GOD they arrested that guy before he was able to harn anyone.

It's really getting scary to live in this country.

[Initech]

17. I really think it's time to start classifying the NRA as a terrorist organization.

Any congressperson or senator who is a member of the NRA A+ list is automatically compromised and should be considered a threat to national security.

[Buckeye_Democrat]

13. Well, now I have to be armed for grocery shopping...

... because other people are doing it.

[Initech]

16. I feel like these are going to get worse and worse.

[Grokenstein]

18. Just waiting for it:

The GOP's barking dogs will cry that Publix violated an innocent open-carry gun-humper's rights. ...He didn't even get a chance to fire off a round, you guys!! It's Jade Helm 13 all over again!!

[captain queeg]

19. At least they're staying out of schools

But, as Covid restrictions fade and schools reopen its only a matter of time. Maybe if it happened more in churches, but then I realize it has and a common response was more people to be armed; you know good guys with guns. It really hard to imagine what could be bad enough to get RW to open their eyes.

[Harker]

20. Lobby bribes drying up.

That would flip a few.

[oldsoftie]

22. I'm actually surprised that the amounts i've seen listed are as LOW as they are.

Many in congress not even getting 100k from the NRA or other gun lobbies. Sure, to normal people like US thats a lot of money. But not in politics

[Harker]

25. I'm cynically inclined to suspect that what's visible

is a small portion of the totality.

[oldsoftie]

27. Probably doesnt count money from all those "not authorized by any candidate" ads.

And the groups behind them

[Harker]

28. And a lot of peach pies. n/t

[oldsoftie]

23. I was silly enough to think Vegas would be the straw.

Because of the randomness & enormity.
But no, instead a whole new batch of conspiracies.

[twodogsbarking]

24. I fear there will be a bigger one

but I hope not.

[hamsterjill]

26. A sick feeling came over me reading this headline

Good grief, when will this end? I’m so sick of the tragedy.

[Sapient Donkey]

31. It's weird he had so many guns on him at once.

I mean, it's weird even if he was planning doing some sort of random mass shooting. That's a lot of weight to carry around. Why not just have more magazines? It's also weird for someone to have that many guns and body armor on in a grocery store even if they are not planning a mass shooting.

Just glad someone saw it before he did whatever he was planning on doing.

[raccoon]

32. Life without parole for this dude. Somebody that fucked up

Should never be loose in society.