At least 6 people shot during violent night in Atlanta

At least six people in the city of Atlanta are recovering from injuries after being shot Wednesday night.

Atlanta police are investigating three shootings that left a total of six people injured.

Officers were first called to Fairburn Road just before 9:30 p.m. in reference to a person shot in the arm. Police say the victim was alert, conscious and breathing while being transported to the hospital. There is no word on their current condition.

Channel 2 Action News crews on the scene found that had its driver’s window busted out. It’s unclear if it was shot or broken.

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At 10:40 p.m., 911 dispatchers received a call that two people had been shot on Jonesboro Road and Lakewood Avenue in southeast Atlanta. When officers arrived on the scene, they found two teenager males and an adult man suffering gunshot wounds. All three were taken to the hospital in stable condition.

Investigators learned that the trio was walking down the street when an unknown car pulled up alongside them and began shooting. There is no description of the vehicle or the suspect.

Just five minutes later, at 10:45 p.m., 911 dispatchers received a call of two other people being shot in the 2000 block of Delowe Drive, less than ten minutes away from the previous shooting.

Investigators learned that at this location, two more juveniles were shot by someone in an unknown vehicle as they walked down the road. Both victims were taken to the hospital in stable condition.

Police say that despite these two shootings being similar and taking place at about the same time, it is too early in the investigation to say if they are related.

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These three shootings are in addition to a shootout in a Walmart parking lot on Cascade Road in the City of South Fulton. Thankfully, no one was injured during the shooting.

Channel 2 Action News crews found between 20 and 30 police evidence markers for shell casings in the Walmart parking lot. This shooting happened near the previous shooting on Fairburn Road earlier in the night. Police have not connected those two cases either.

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