A domestic dispute inside a Canton home early Saturday ended with a woman shot in the upper torso, her two adult children running out to flag down help, and a stray bullet lodged in the siding of a house across the street. Robtavious Orlando Reed, 42, is now facing seven felony charges after police say he shot his wife, Kimberly Reed, inside their residence on Park Village Drive.
Canton police and Cherokee County Sheriff's Office deputies responded to a reported domestic dispute involving a gun at 2:45 a.m. last Saturday, according to FOX 5 Atlanta. Officers found a woman suffering from a gunshot wound and provided first aid before Cherokee County Fire & Emergency Services transported her to Kennestone Hospital. The Canton Police Department formally identified the residence as 127 Park Village Drive and named the wounded victim as Kimberly Reed, the suspect's wife.
The station's report notes that multiple rounds were fired inside the home during the dispute, with one bullet passing through an interior wall and embedding into the exterior siding of a neighbor's house across the street — underscoring how close the gunfire came to endangering people well outside the Reed household. The couple's two adult children, ages 18 and 20, ran from the home to seek emergency help and briefed arriving Canton officers and county deputies about the active shooting inside, per the same account.
Suspect Located and Arrested in Forsyth County
Authorities located Reed in neighboring Forsyth County, where he was arrested during a joint multi-agency operation. Investigators recovered the handgun linked to the shooting inside his vehicle at the time of the arrest, the outlet reported. Detectives later interviewed Reed at the Canton Police Department before he was booked into the Cherokee County Adult Detention Center.
Officer Pacer Cordry, strategic engagement officer for the Canton Police Department, provided a press release detailing the arrest and investigation, and Canton Police Chief Marty Ferrell issued official statements about the case as well. As of the department's release, officials had not provided an update on Kimberly Reed's current medical condition. The Canton Police Department Detective Unit said the incident remains under active investigation and that the department will release additional details when they become available.
Seven Felony Counts, Including Firearm and False Imprisonment Charges
Reed faces three counts of aggravated assault, family violence; two counts of possession of a firearm during the commission or attempted commission of a crime; one count of possession of a firearm by a convicted felon; and one count of false imprisonment — seven charges in total. Under Georgia Code § 16-5-21, an aggravated assault charge committed within a relationship covered by the Family Violence Act carries a mandatory minimum sentence of three years and up to 20 years in state prison, according to Jarrett & Price Law.
The felon-in-possession count carries its own separate exposure. Georgia Code § 16-11-131 sets a state prison sentence of one to five years for possessing a firearm as a convicted felon, while federal statute 18 U.S.C. § 922(g) allows for up to 10 years if pursued federally, per Davis Madden & Associates. The false imprisonment charge is also a felony under Georgia Code § 16-5-41, which defines the offense as detaining or confining someone without legal authority and sets penalties of one to 10 years in prison, according to Chehimi Law. It remains unclear what prior felony conviction underlies the firearm possession charge against Reed.
A Familiar Strain on Cherokee County's Domestic Violence Resources
The Canton shooting adds to a heavy local caseload. In Cherokee County during 2025, emergency dispatchers logged 3,439 domestic violence 911 calls, and the Cherokee Family Violence Center provided 3,833 emergency shelter bed-nights to survivors, according to the Cherokee Family Violence Center. Statewide, more than 7,500 domestic violence survivors and their children were turned away from emergency shelters in a single year due to acute bed space shortages, per Cherokee County planning documents.
Research from the Georgia Coalition Against Domestic Violence shows that female victims of intimate partner abuse are five times more likely to be killed when their abuser has access to a firearm — a statistic that frames the danger posed when gunfire erupts inside a home like the one on Park Village Drive. Investigators have not said whether Reed will face additional charges as the case develops, and Kimberly Reed's condition at Kennestone Hospital had not been publicly updated as of the latest police statement.
