A 16-year-old boy was killed and another was injured in a Wednesday night shooting involving two groups in southwest Atlanta, authorities said.
Officers were called to an area near Campbellton Road and Oakland Drive, near Rev. James Orange Park in Oakland City, around 8:10 p.m.
Police said they found one teenager unresponsive with an apparent gunshot wound. Gabriel Seats, identified by the Fulton County Medical Examiner’s Office, was pronounced dead at the scene.
Another 16-year-old, who was shot in the buttocks, was alert and taken to a hospital, officials said.
Andrew Smith, commander of Atlanta police’s homicide unit, said during a news conference that the incident began as an altercation between two groups of juveniles. Both teens who were shot lived on the street where the incident occurred, he said.
“One was shot. The one that was shot then produced a handgun, returning fire, striking and killing the decedent,” Smith said.
Police said they are not sure what the altercation was about.
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