MARTA police arrested a 21-year-old man who was described as homeless in the shooting at the College Park rail station Tuesday, said spokeswoman Alisa Jackson.
Sherodrick Cheeley was charged with aggravated assault and weapons charges and booked into the Fulton County jail, Jackson said.
Cheeley was arrested after a fight between him and another man escalated into gunfire, transit authority spokesman Lyle Harris said.
The victim, who was conscious and alert, was transported to Grady Memorial Hospital, Harris said. Police reported the injured man was in stable condition.
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A witness told The Atlanta Journal-Constitution that she heard a “pop that didn’t sound right” and when she turned she saw a man get up off the ground from an area around the buses and say, “Call the police, I’ve been shot.”
The man then ran off and another man appeared and pursued him up a hill, said the woman, who did not give her name.
"Another guy came up behind him and said, 'You better run, You better run, You better run,' and took off after him," she said.
The woman said police began arriving and pursuing the victim and the suspected shooter. The pursuit was in the direction she would normally walk, she said, but she delayed going that way today.
“I definitely did not go up there,” she said.
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