WOODSTOCK, Ga. -- The Georgia Bureau of Investigation has been called in to help investigate after an officer-involved shooting in Woodstock, Ga.

The shooting happened on Wednesday around 2 a.m. and Cherokee County Sheriff’s Office authorities requested GBI assistance just after 3 a.m.

Police said they were initially called in to investigate a possible suicide threat to the 1400 block of Olde Mill Trace. Officers then learned that there was a woman and two young children in the home with an armed man – later identified as William Candler, 35, of Woodstock.

As officers arrived the woman and children safely fled the home.

But as Woodstock police officers approached the residence to make contact with Candler, he exited the home onto the front porch carrying a rifle.

WOODSTOCK, Ga. -- Police are investigating whether a string of robberies across metro Atlanta are connected – including an armed robbery of a Woodstock smoke shop that left a 20-year-old dead.

E.J. Delos Reyes was killed when two men robbed the Smoke 911 store where he worked as a clerk. Officials say the details of that crime match those of four separate robberies of GameStop video game stores. These stores are dozens of miles apart.

Family and friends commemorated Delos Reyes' life Friday afternoon.