10-year-old girl stabbed at troubled SE Atlanta complex

A 10-year-old girl was stabbed at a troubled southeast Atlanta apartment complex Sunday evening, according to authorities.

Police were called around 7 p.m. to the Fairway Gardens apartments on Cleveland Avenue in the Rosedale Heights neighborhood. When they arrived, officers found the child with a stab wound. She was described as alert, but it was not clear if she required hospitalization.

Officials said a woman was detained, but they did not describe her relationship to the child or say if she had been charged.

Fairway Gardens is among 272 of the metro area’s persistently dangerous complexes, according to an investigation by The Atlanta Journal-Constitution that looked into serious crimes, lax maintenance and other hazards in Atlanta neighborhoods.

From 2017 through July 2023, police reported 122 crimes at the complex, including 27 aggravated assaults, two robberies, a rape and a child molestation.

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