ATLANTA — Atlanta police have charged three people after a double shooting in downtown Atlanta. Two of those people were the ones shot.
The shooting happened in the area of Forsyth Street and Brotherton Street, which is front of the Garnett MARTA station and Greyhound bus station.
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Police say a man Brandon Sellers was waiting to leave on a bus when he was approached by a man, later identified as Michael Mulligan, asking for a cigarette.
Mulligan later came back and asked Sellers for money. As Sellers pulled out his wallet, Mulligan snatched his wallet and ran off.
Police say Sellers chased after him, pulled out a gun and shot him.
A second man was grazed in the head by a bullet. He was taken to Grady Memorial Hospital and released.
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A third man, Michael Wilcoxson, saw the shooting and, police say, feared for his safety, so he fired several shots towards them.
Channel 2’s Steve Gehlbach spoke with witnesses who were at the station as shots rang out.
“All of a sudden heard a bang, bang, bang, bang, and turned around and seen a guy laying down on the corner right there,” one witness who was dropping off his wife said.
Initially, police detained four men, but one of them was released after being determined not to have been involved.
Sellers and Wilcoxson are being charged with aggravated assault and possession of a firearm during the commission of a felony.
Mulligan is being charged with sudden snatch theft.
It’s unclear who the second man who had been shot was.
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