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Two teens dead, multiple shot at southwest Atlanta apartment complex
Lady tells FOX 5 her nephew was focused in teen shootout
A girl spoke with FOX 5 anonymously about what she knew of the capturing that occurred Saturday night time on Continental Colony Parkway close to Greenbrier Mall in southwest Atlanta.
ATLANTA – Atlanta police have reported a number of youngsters shot, leaving two useless in what police have known as a shootout close to an house advanced on the 3000 block of Continental Colony Parkway in southwest Atlanta. A 14-year-old boy and 16-year-old boy had been pronounced useless on the scene.
On Saturday night round 5:09 p.m. police started their investigation on the scene. The Atlanta Public Faculties Police Division confirmed with FOX 5 that they had been additionally on the scene as a few of the victims concerned had been college students from the district. Police confirmed the opposite victims attended different metro faculty districts.
Three teenaged and pre-teenaged victims had been reportedly taken to an area hospital by a personal car earlier than police arrived. These victims included an 11-year-old boy, a 15-year-old lady and a 15-year-old boy.
Atlanta police say youngsters had been concerned in shootout on Continental Colony Parkway
Atlanta police ship an replace on a deadly shootout that killed two youngsters on Continental Colony Parkway Saturday night time.
Deputy Chief Charles Hampton Jr. stated this shootout started as a dispute on social media that escalated to exchanged gunfire when one group of youngsters got here to the house advanced with firearms.
“I hate being right here speaking about youngsters and gun hearth. We simply ask that folks know the place your youngsters are, know what they’re doing, examine rooms,” the deputy chief stated. “There are simply too many weapons within the palms of our youth. Like I stated a number of weeks in the past, this ought to be a time that we’re preparing for the vacations, however we now have no less than two households that will likely be planning for funerals.”
Police say this investigation is ongoing and urge anybody with data to name Crime Stoppers to go away an nameless tip.
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