EAST POINT, Ga. — Patients at a pediatrician's office in East Point are sharing what they are calling moments of sheer terror as a bullet ripped through the doctor’s office.
Channel 2's Alyssa Hyman obtained video of the incident that shows a bullet shattering a glass door in the waiting room with children inside.
Another view shows where the bullet pierced through a wall right next to where the receptionists were sitting.
According to East Point police, witnesses heard an argument outside and then gunfire erupted.
"I didn't see anything. I heard it," one mother, who is seen in the video and did not give her name, told Hyman.
She said she was outside on the phone when bullets started flying.
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"When I see my son by the door, I had to hurry up and get him," the mother said.
In the video, you see her run inside to get her son, who was sitting directly next to the glass door when the bullet struck.
"Did the glass hit you?” Hyman asked the boy.
“Yeah,” he said.
The boy’s father, Jerrod Smith, was also inside the waiting room with the boy’s baby brother.
“We heard multiple (shots). Just sounded like somebody knocking on the door," Smith said. “Why would they be running around here with guns in this little area where a doctor’s office is at?"
Dr. Cheryl Kendall is the owner of the practice.
"This glass is apparently bulletproof, which I did not know, but thank heavens it is because that's what prevented the bullet from coming to the exam room where I was with a patient on the exam table," Kendall said, showing Hyman the bullet hole near the reception desk.
Kendall said it was a miracle that no one was hurt.
“Thank heaven everyone got to the back and got on the floor. We stayed away from the windows," Kendall said.
The doctor’s office said the argument witnesses heard had nothing to do with the practice or any of its patients.
East Point police said they are still searching for the shooter and are trying to get to the bottom of what led to the gunfire.
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