Metro Atlanta
Child shot in southeast Atlanta
Atlanta police are investigating a shooting that left a child with a gunshot wound to the leg.
An 11-year-old was taken to Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta at Egleston late Thursday night with a gunshot wound to the leg, Atlanta police said.
The child was alert, conscious and breathing, Officer Stephanie Brown said. The shooting happened about 9:20 p.m. in the 1700 block of Richmond Circle in the southeast part of the city.
No other details were released.
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