Residents return home after search for 6 gunmen yields no arrests
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.
School kids are finally being allowed to come home after a five hour search for gunmen. @wsbtv pic.twitter.com/CxfVYT1vyj
— Dave Huddleston (@DaveHWSB) February 8, 2017
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.”
Update from Police about the situation in Northwest Atlanta. A gun battle on the streets one person shot. @wsbtv pic.twitter.com/F2zilr2StB
— Dave Huddleston (@DaveHWSB) February 8, 2017
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.
This is a text from someone locked down during the gun battle in NW Atlanta. @wsbtv pic.twitter.com/3GzmBn5JAf
— Dave Huddleston (@DaveHWSB) February 8, 2017
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.
Hightower Road @ Center Street will be blocked for sometime as APD search for multiple gunmen. pic.twitter.com/n870y9St54
— Warren Pickard (@APDChevrons) February 8, 2017
