A man was seriously injured Sunday night in a shooting that also sent a bullet flying through the windshield of a MARTA bus near the Ashby MARTA station, Atlanta police said Monday.
A woman also injured in the shooting was found about a block away at the intersection of Martin Luther King Jr. Drive and Joseph E. Lowery Boulevard, police spokeswoman Officer Kim Jones said.
Police responded to the shooting about 8:30 p.m.
“The crime scene was expansive,” Jones said.
Initial interviews with witnesses revealed a man wearing a hooded sweatshirt “exited a vehicle and opened fire on the first victim who then entered the MARTA station and went down the escalator where he collapsed,” she said.
The shooter reentered the vehicle and sped away from the scene on Joseph E. Lowery Boulevard, police said.
“The second victim was injured when one of the rounds fired by the suspect appears to have struck the windshield of the vehicle causing glass and projectile fragments to strike her face,” Jones said.
The man and the woman were taken to Grady Memorial Hospital, where doctors performed surgery on the seriously injured man. The woman had non-life-threatening injuries, police said.
MARTA police responded to the shooting and helped secure the perimeter. They are also helping review security footage of the shooting obtained because the MARTA property is equipped with cameras.
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