ATLANTA — Atlanta police said they helped to save a man suffering from a gunshot wound after a shooting in Northwest Atlanta on Thursday morning.
Police arrived just after 10 a.m. to a shooting call on the 800 block of Neal St. NW. Upon arrival, police said they applied a tourniquet to the wound before he was transported to the hospital.
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Investigators within APD’s aggravated assault unit were notified and will be working to determine the circumstances surrounding the shooting.
No information about the suspect was available from the police.
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This shooting took place just steps from where 92-year-old Kathryn Johnston was shot and killed by police during a botched drug raid on Nov. 21, 2006. Several officers involved in the incident were sent to prison.
Johnston’s home was recently transformed into a non-profit youth center.
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