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Child shot in southeast Atlanta

Atlanta police are investigating a shooting that left a child with a gunshot wound to the leg.
Atlanta police are investigating a shooting that left a child with a gunshot wound to the leg.
By Raisa Habersham
May 19, 2017

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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Raisa Habersham is the Intown Atlanta hyperlocal reporter for The Atlanta-Journal Constitution.

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