DeKalb police are looking for two men suspected in the shooting of a 40-year-old man Monday afternoon across the road from a middle school.
The man who was shot was in a park across the road from Salem Middle School near Lithonia, Capt. Steve Fore said. He then walked to the school for help and was assisted by a resource officer, Fore said.
The school, which has 1,056 students, immediately went into lockdown, said Quinn Hudson, spokesman for DeKalb schools. All students were able to leave campus at 4 p.m. on schedule, Hudson said.
The man was transported to Grady Memorial Hospital with a non-life-threatening wound in the abdomen, Fore said. The two men reportedly fled in a silver or gray Mercedes.
“We have not been able to determine a motive,” Fore said.
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