ATLANTA — Police say one person is in the hospital and another is dead after a shooting late Monday evening in Atlanta.
Officer Tasheena Brown told 11Alive that the shooting happened around 9:45 p.m. in the area of 195 Fairburn Road NW. Officer Brown said two people were shot at the location and one of them who had been critically injured later died.
Based on what police have gathered so far, the shots were fired from a vehicle that sped away from the scene afterward. Bullets not only struck the two victims but also hit a nearby apartment. While the property was damaged, the people inside were not injured.
The deceased victim has not yet been publicly identified but was said to be a male.
Police are still working to determine the circumstances of the night's shooting. The location, a residential area, is also a short distance away from several businesses at Fairburn Road and Martin Luther King Drive SW - the center of Atlanta's Adamsville community.