A shooting near a popular downtown Atlanta shopping district on Saturday killed at least one person and injured at least five others.
The shooting took place a few steps from the city’s Atlantic Station shopping district at around 8 p.m., shortly after Atlanta police officers and Atlantic Station employees were out of duty escorting a “group of young people” out. from the Atlantic Station compound, Lieutenant Germaine Dearlove, the Atlanta Police’s Crime Stopper, said in a statement. Press Conference.
Dearlove said the group moved to nearby 17th Street, where an argument broke out and escalated into gunfire. Police believe the six victims were between the ages of 15 and 21.
Dearlove said the group was removed from Atlantic Station for “unruly behavior and curfew violation.” In the aftermath of a series of shootings late last year, Atlantic Radio said in January that it was tighten curfew for anyone under the age of 18 until 3 p.m. In the past, a curfew was set at 6 p.m
The details of what led to the shooting are still unclear, but Dearlove said it is possible that the dispute involved multiple shooters between the two groups, according to investigators.
“We’re in the preliminary stages right now,” Dearlove said. “We’re on a fact-finding mission to see exactly what happened.”
He added, “Atlanta Police Department, City of Atlanta, we do our best to identify violent crime suspects and we do our job and we do our job well. We’ll do what we have to do to keep the city safe.”
The Atlanta shooting was one of at least six mass shootings will take place in the US over Thanksgiving weekend, according to the Gun Violence Archive. The group define A mass shooting is an incident in which four or more people are shot or killed, not including the shooter. Overall, the United States has seen at least 615 mass shootings in 2022.
Since early November, the country has seen at least 40 mass shootings, including mass shootings. shooting in Colorado Springs At an LGBTQ nightclub, five people were killed and at least 25 others injured.
