Mother killed outside Greyhound station was retaliation for earlier shooting, police say

ATLANTA — A mother was killed in what police believe was a retaliation shooting early Friday morning.

Police were already responding to a shooting on South Forsyth Street around 4 a.m. Friday when more shots rang out in a parking lot of the Greyhound station across the street. They rushed to the scene and found a woman in her 50s dead from multiple gunshots, police said.

Just 40 minutes earlier, a woman was shot in the leg at a nearby convenience store, police said. That victim was being loaded into an ambulance when more shots were fired.

The suspect got away.

Police said the woman who was killed had been shopping at the convenience store during the first shooting and was interviewed by the police about that crime.

Police now believe she was the mother of the gunman in that shooting. They said the second shooting was likely retaliation for the first one.

Channel 2's Steve Gehlbach talked to Atlanta's police officer Lt. Carven Tyus, who said it's a shame to have another shooting when police were already on the scene.

"It's very disconcerting that an individual would come up and fire weapons and there's a group of police officers standing there on an active crime scene," Tyus said. "So that gives us pause."

Video shot by Channel 2 Action News may show two victims and the suspected gunman in one of the two shootings.

A witness told Gehlbach he'd just talked to the victim moments earlier.

"I don't know what the motive behind the killing was," the witness said.

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Video showed the victim of that shooting running from the store, despite her leg wound, as well as the suspected gunman running away.

Woman shot and killed outside Atlanta greyhound bus station. Just yards from where GBI and APD were investigating another officer involved shooting on Forsyth St. pic.twitter.com/Q1D9i8P2Fq

"The officers are using caution when they’re out here and we have officers posted up on the perimeter to ensure the officers working the crime scene are safe out here,” Tyus said.

Police said the shooter ran to the MARTA Broad Street station. Authorities are working to learn the description of the shooter.

The shooting happened about a block from an active investigation into an officer-involved shooting

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