A southwest Atlanta Starbucks is expected to reopen today as police continue searching for the gunman who injured two men, including the city's former top attorney, there.

A man walked into the coffee shop on Cascade Road about 9:15 p.m. Wednesday and shot two men —- former Atlanta city attorney Clifford Hardwick, 56, and Timothy Strayhorn, 43, Fulton County police spokeswoman Kay Lester said.

The gunman fled in a white Chevrolet Impala or Caprice, she said. He remained at large Thursday evening.

Strayhorn was in fair condition at Grady Memorial Hospital. The hospital listed Hardwick in critical condition Thursday morning. Grady spokeswoman Denise Simpson would not release Hardwick's condition later in the day but said he was still alive.

Hardwick is an attorney who led Atlanta's Law Department in the mid-1990s under former Mayor Bill Campbell's administration. Strayhorn recently worked for a medical billing service in Decatur, according to the secretary of state's office. His current occupation is unclear.

Attempts to reach the victims' family members at their homes and at Grady were not successful.

Inside the Starbucks on Thursday morning, police interviewed Strayhorn's wife. She refused to talk to reporters gathered outside.

The coffee shop is a corner unit of a brick strip shopping center in a busy restaurant and retail corridor just outside I-285. It is in unincorporated Fulton County about a mile outside city limits.

There were about 20 people in the restaurant when shots rang out, said customer Karmen Sneed. Sneed said she was standing about 3 feet from one of the victims.

"He was in shock, sweating profusely," said Sneed, who was not hurt. "He looked scared."

Witnesses said one of the victims sitting at a table was shot point-blank four times. The second man also was hit, apparently by a bullet that had ricocheted, Sneed said.

Police towed two trucks from the parking lot, including one pickup with Alabama tags. The restaurant was closed Thursday. In a written statement, Starbucks said it planned to reopen today.

Patrons were stunned to hear of violence at the Starbucks, which is owned by former NBA player Magic Johnson and frequented by local civil rights leaders and politicians.

"This is shocking," said Jennifer Washington, a financial services adviser who often plays chess at the coffee shop. "You don't expect something like this to happen here. But things can happen anywhere. I feel safe here. I'll be back."

Staff writers Christian Boone and Marcus Garner and news researchers Sharon Gaus and Richard Hallman contributed to this article.