Police: Teen arrested after car break-in, shooting son and father

GWINNETT COUNTY, Ga. - Police arrest a teenager who is accused of shooting a father and his 10-year-old son.

Police responded to a home in the 4000 block of Countryside Way in unincorporated Snellville around 7:30 a.m. Thursday morning. Gwinnett County police said they found the father and son shot, but their injuries were not life-threatening.

Police said the homeowner found the suspect in his garage trying to steal a bike.

"The homeowner comes out, confronts him, the suspect pulls out a pistol and fired shots, one of those shots hits the homeowner and his 10-year old son," said Gwinnett County Police Sgt. Jake Smith.

The father was hit in the leg, his son was shot in the foot.  Both were taken to the hospital.

Investigators said the teen matched the same description as one of two suspects who fled from a car which officers were attempting to pull over about a half-hour earlier and a half-mile away at Summer Wood Drive while investigating a report of a car break-in nearby. The two suspects fled the scene on foot.

Jacobi Chomicki (Gwinnett County Detention Center)

Additional officers, the K-9 unit, the aviation unit, and some of the SWAT team responded to the area to try to locate the teen.

"There were fire trucks, ambulances, police cars," said one neighbor.

Around 9 a.m., officers tracked a suspect, later identified at 17-year-old Jacobi Chomicki to an abandoned car behind a home located along Lenora Road.

"He did not comply initially, so they sent the K9 in and he was bitten in the foot and then he surrendered," said Sgt. Jake Smith. 

Chomicki was checked out at the scene and then taken to police headquarters. It was later determined Chomicki was one of the suspects who initially fled during the traffic stop. He was booked into the Gwinnett County Detention Center with almost a dozen charges against him.

Police say they are still searching for the second suspect.

A family member of the father and son who were shot told FOX 5 News both are home from the hospital and are doing well.