EAST COBB - A woman who reported suffering serious injuries after being attacked by a man with a baseball bat at Harrison Park on Thursday morning - which resulted in four east Cobb schools being placed on lockdown and triggering a panic in nearby neighborhoods - has been charged with making a false report of a crime, a misdemeanor.

Tarrah Lynn Connon, 32, of east Cobb, was arrested Friday at Cobb Police headquarters in Marietta. Investigators questioned her over two days regarding the alleged attack. As a result, police say they determined her story was too inconsistent and concluded the attack never occurred.

"The version of events given by Connon did not seem plausible," said Cobb Police Officer Joe Hernandez. He said the injuries she claimed to have sustained were not "consistent to how she described events."

Connon was being held Friday on a $5,000 bond at the Cobb County Jail. If convicted, she faces a maximum sentence of a year in jail.

A source told the Journal that Connon has made similar false reports before; however, Cobb Police would not confirm the report. A Cobb official said his office, and police, had received numerous calls from alarmed residents, who were concerned that a dangerous person was loose in the area.

Lassiter High School, Simpson and Mabry middle schools and Mountain View Elementary School were placed on lockdown from about 10 a.m. to 11 a.m. Thursday as a safety precaution, said Cobb Public Safety Director Mickey Lloyd.

Lloyd said police take all 911 calls seriously and respond with necessary resources. "This takes a lot of resources and resources equate to money," Lloyd said. "I don't know why someone would do that but hopefully when it gets to court, they can do something to help or to punish this person."

Connon resides in a neighborhood a few miles south of Lassiter at 2996 Sloans Way near the intersection of Sandy Plains and Trickum roads in east Cobb, according to Cobb Sheriff's Office records. No employer is listed in the data.

The attack was reported Thursday morning by Connon, who told police that she was walking on a trail at a park when a 6-foot-tall male, wearing a mask and dressed in black, attacked her and fled on foot. Harrison Park is located east of Lassiter High School adjacent to the school's parking lot near the intersection of Shallowford and Sandy Plains roads in east Cobb.

In the 911 call she made - which was made available to the Journal by police - Connon frantically tells the dispatcher that a masked man attacked her with a baseball bat at a so-called "Wilson Park" behind Lassiter. The call was made at 9:22 a.m. and ended at 9:27 a.m.

"Hi, my name is Tarrah Connon. I was just attacked on the trails at Wilson Park," Connon said during the call.

"In what park?" the female dispatcher asked.

"Wilson Park. The one behind Lassiter, with a baseball bat. I think my leg is broken," Connon responded.

"Do you know who attacked you?" asked the dispatcher.

"No. They ran off," Connon answered.

"They were what?" the dispatcher asked.

"They ran off. Can you hurry (inaudible)?" Connon said.

When asked by the dispatcher whether the alleged attacker was black, white or Hispanic, Connon said she couldn't tell because he was wearing a mask.

"Which way did he go?" the dispatcher asked.

"He went towards Lassiter High School," Connon said.

She then again told the dispatcher that she thought her leg was broken and perhaps her ribs had been fractured, and that she was "scared."

The 911 dispatcher apparently was uncertain of Connon's exact location and repeatedly asked Connon to describe where she was. Connon told her that she was about a mile into one of the trails at the park and to "please hurry." When the dispatcher asked for better directions, Connon then handed her phone to a female passerby who was walking her and asked for help.

The passerby and the dispatcher spent the remaining minutes of the call discussing where Connon was located. At one point, the passerby informed the dispatcher that Connon had two dogs with her.

Several Cobb Police officers from Precinct 4, which covers northeast Cobb, responded in less than two minutes, Hernandez said. He said Connon was taken by ambulance to WellStar Kennestone Hospital in Marietta and later released in good condition.

Hernandez did not disclose whether Connon had any injuries. He only said there were no injuries on her body that were consistent with being attacked in the manner in which she described. Investigators from the Cobb Police traffic unit, K-9 unit, crimes against person unit, as well as Cobb Sheriff's Office deputies and campus police from nearby schools, later responded to investigate further. They set of a perimeter and conducted a search for a suspect but did not find one, Hernandez said.