1 dead, 5 injured at Atlantic Station shooting: Police - ABC News

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Police judge that the victims were betwixt the ages of 15 and 21.

One idiosyncratic is dead, and 5 others are injured aft a shooting that took spot adjacent Atlantic Station Saturday evening successful Atlanta, Georgia, the Atlanta Police Department said.

One antheral was pronounced deceased connected the country and 5 different victims were changeable and aboriginal transported to adjacent hospitals, Atlanta Police Lt. Germain Dearlove said successful a property league Saturday night. The grade of their conditions was not specified.

A radical of radical were escorted disconnected of Atlantic Station spot by off-duty Atlanta constabulary officers and presumption unit astatine astir 8 p.m., constabulary said. They were juveniles, said Dearlove, and were removed for "unruly behavior" on with curfew violations. Police judge that the victims were betwixt the ages of 15 and 21.

Once the radical was escorted disconnected the property, a quality occurred adjacent Atlantic Station, which led to the weapon violence, said Dearlove. The crushed for the quality is presently nether investigation.

Police are looking to place the parties involved, arsenic preliminary accusation suggests that this quality was betwixt 2 groups, with 2 imaginable shooters, said Dearlove.

Authorities are not definite however galore shots were fired astatine this time.

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