ATLANTA — A 12-year-old boy was taken to the hospital Friday evening after Atlanta Police said he was shot several times.
Atlanta Police officers responded to the area of Martin Luther King Jr. Drive SW and Hamilton E. Holmes Drive NW just after 6 p.m. to a call of a person shot. When officers showed up, they found the boy with gunshot wounds to his chest and arm, police said.
Police said he was taken to the hospital, where he was "alert, conscious and breathing."
Through the investigation, APD said the 12-year-old was shot at 2201 Martin Luther King Jr. Drive SW, which Google Maps shows is the address for Little Shop of Styles Hair salon. The address is in the city's Florida Heights neighborhood.
Police are still trying to figure out what led to the shooting.
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