A man is in the hospital with a gunshot wound, a car is wrecked and burned, and Atlanta police are trying to sort it all out.
Police said a carjacking turned into a car chase and shooting Saturday around 5 p.m. That ended with a fiery crash that closed a segment of Hamilton E. Holmes and Burton Roads.
According to police, officers rushed to the 100 block of H.E. Holmes after receiving calls that shots had been fired. They arrived to find a wrecked car in flames and saw several men running from it. The men, said officers, jumped in a red car and sped away.
Investigators turned their attention to the wrecked car, a blue Chevrolet Lumina — later reported stolen at gunpoint. They found an AK-47 rifle in the car, said police, and a second one on the pavement. Both automatic weapons were loaded.
Meanwhile, Grady Memorial Hospital reported that someone had dropped off a man who’d been shot in the chest. Physicians hustled him into surgery and saved his life; he was listed in critical but stable condition. Police had not released his name Sunday.
Officers closed a segment of H.E. Holmes and Burton Roads and began investigating. They’d been there for an hour and a half when a man identifying himself as the owner of the crashed car dialed 911 to report the theft. He was at the intersection of Collier and Hightower Roads, he told police, when a man with a handgun forced him from it. Three or four others jumped in the car, he told officers. The car’s owner didn’t explain why he waited more than an hour report the carjacking.
Police detained one man, but let him go after determining he had nothing to do with the melee. They’re still investigating.
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