2 gunmen open fire on man asleep in car in NE Atlanta, police say

Two men opened fire on a victim sleeping in his car along a northeast Atlanta road early Monday morning.

The two were seen on surveillance footage climbing out of two white vehicles and approaching the victim’s car parked on Auburn Avenue near Bell Street, according to Atlanta police. The vehicles first passed the man’s car, made a U-turn and returned.

Seven shots were fired, hitting the sleeping 59-year-old man in the arm and chest, Atlanta police Capt. Jessica Bruce told Channel 2 Action News from the scene. He was able to flag down a security guard near the Georgia State University campus and ask for help, she said.

The man was taken to Grady Memorial Hospital, where he remains in critical condition but is stable.

Investigators believe he was targeted, Bruce said. They do not have a good description of the suspects.

The shooting was one of at least two Atlanta police investigated before daybreak Monday. Another shooting victim was rushed to a hospital after he was discovered shortly before 6:30 a.m. in the 2500 block of Donald Lee Hollowell Parkway.

“There was one witness on scene who said that victim did knock on the car that he was sleeping in and just said that he was shot,” Maj. Charles Hampton said. “Right now that’s all we have.”

Investigators are collecting evidence from a Honda Accord that may have been the victim’s. They don’t know if he was shot inside the car or if he was shot somewhere else and drove to Hollowell Parkway for help, Hampton said.

“We didn’t get a whole lot of information from the victim,” he said.

His condition is unknown.