Police respond to shooting with injuries at a Marietta, Georgia, Walmart - CNN

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Law enforcement connected  the country   of a shooting extracurricular  a Walmart successful  Marietta, Georgia.

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At slightest 1 idiosyncratic was injured Wednesday successful a shooting outside a Walmart in the Atlanta suburb of Marietta, Cobb County constabulary said.

Police were “on the country of a shooting astatine 2795 Chastain Meadows Pkwy. Several injuries. Not an progressive shooter,” police said successful a tweet. “No existent menace to public.”

Cobb County Police Chief Ben Cohen aboriginal told reporters astatine slightest 1 idiosyncratic was changeable and transported to a section hospital. The person’s information is not known.

Police responded to a study of an progressive shooter but aboriginal determined the shooting was “between 2 abstracted groups … astatine the exterior country of the Walmart Automotive Center,” according to Cohen.

“It was 2 groups that knew each other,” the lawman main said. “They had an altercation… There is nary information to the public.”

Several radical were detained for questioning, Cohen said.

The shooting comes weeks aft six store employees were killed by a gunman astatine a Walmart successful Virginia. A manager connected an overnight displacement astatine a Walmart successful Chesapeake, Virginia, allegedly opened occurrence with a handgun connected November 22 successful the interruption country successful what was the 3rd wide shooting successful that authorities successful November.

“The archetypal probe is inactive pending,” according to a Cobb County Sheriff’s Office spokesperson. The sheriff’s bureau and different country agencies were connected country assisting police, officials told CNN.

“We are alert of the concern and are moving intimately with section instrumentality enforcement,” Walmart spokesperson Ashley Nolan said.

Walmart was evacuated, but nary shots were fired inside, constabulary said.

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