SWAT officials wrapped up a door to door search about 5 p.m. Wednesday after a shooting at a northwest Atlanta apartment complex.
Police started searching about 1 p.m. for multiple shooters at the Rolling Bends Apartments on Center Street and local schools were locked down as a precaution.
No arrests had been made by 5:45 p.m., Channel 2 Action News reported, but students from nearby Atlanta schools were allowed to board buses and head home after about a five-hour search.
Shortly before 4 p.m., the district released a statement about locking down schools:
"Atlanta Public Schools can confirm that students from Boyd elementary schools, Bunche and Harper Archer middle schools, BEST Academy, Coretta Scott King Young Women's Leadership Academy and Douglass high schools who reside in the in the vicinity of Rolling Bend Apartments at 2500 Center St. are being held at their schools due to an active shooter situation in the area. APS transportation will send a secondary bus to the school to transport them home once the area is cleared. Parents also have the option of picking up their students with proper identification."
Officers found a person shot in the leg on Center Street and multiple others still shooting, Atlanta Deputy Chief Jeff Glazier said.
“There was a little bit of chaos on the scene when police arrived,” he said.
Dozens of Atlanta police officers continued searching for about six shooters in the 2500 block of Center Street, Glazier said.
“We believe everyone we’re looking for is in an apartment,” Glazier said. “We’re trying to determine who they are.”
Vannesa Cox told Channel 2 that 12 people were locked in an apartment day care and asked her via text message to call police and news stations.
Police also interviewed the man who was shot in the leg, trying to determine who the shooters were. The victim was taken to Grady Memorial Hospital, where he was in stable condition, Glazier said.
