A neighbor of a Real Housewives of Atlanta star was arrested after a SWAT standoff that lasted for several hours on Wednesday.
George R. Moore was arrested after firing a gunshot inside his mansion in the affluent Manor Golf and County Club in Milton, GA.
Channel 2’s Mike Petchenik, was at the scene when police and SWAT officers set up a perimeter around the house in the gated subdivision of million dollar homes near Hopewell and Hamby roads.
Petchenik learned that Moore is the next-door neighbor of Kim Zolciak and her husband, ex-NFL player Kroy Biermann.
Footage shot by NewsChopper 2 shows a man come outside and surrender to police, who handcuffed him and led him to a police cruiser.
The drama unfolded on Wednesday afternoon after family members called police to report that someone at the home was in distress and asked for a welfare check.
When officers arrived at the home, Moore refused to open the door and hung up on them when they called his phone.
Police later determined Moore had fired a handgun inside the home. No one else was in the home at the time.
Moore was charged with reckless conduct and booked into the Fulton County jail.
“This is the kind of resolution that we hope for when we get into these situations,” Captain Charles Barstow told Petchenik.
Zolciak’s chef, Tracey Bloom, was cooking dinner at the time of the incident.
“When I was in the house, everyone was running around,” Bloom told Petchenik. “I was just cooking and I was like, ‘What’s going on?’ My boss, Kim, was like, ‘Get all the wine and bring it down to the safe room.'”
Bloom said she’s seen the man before in the neighborhood.
“From what I hear, he was cool, but then if you got on his bad side, he’d go crazy and get weird and stuff like that,” Bloom said. “I hope this guy gets the help he needs.”
