Teenage girl shot in the hip in NW Atlanta, cops say

A teenage girl was shot in the hip after a man approached her in northwest Atlanta on Tuesday evening, authorities said.

Police found 17-year-old Shaqoyah Higgings with a gunshot wound to her left hip in the 3100 block of Middleton Road around 7:10 p.m., according to a police report.

A witness told authorities she and Higgings were standing outside of an apartment complex when a man wearing a black hoodie and sweater with blue jeans opened fire on the teenager about five times around 5:30 p.m. The man then took off running east on Martin Luther King Jr. Drive, police said.

Officers said they located five shell casings at the scene.

Higgings, who also had a bullet graze to her left arm, was taken to Grady Memorial Hospital, according to the report.

Police have not released information on a possible suspect.

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