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SWAT team called to NW Atlanta apartment shooting

Atlanta police are investigating a shooting at an apartment complex.
Atlanta police are investigating a shooting at an apartment complex.
By Raisa Habersham
Sept 3, 2016

A SWAT team is on the scene of an apartment shooting after Atlanta police say an alleged gunman barricaded himself inside an apartment.

Atlanta police first got a call about a homicide along 2500 block of Etheridge Court shortly after 8 p.m., police spokesman Donald T. Hannah said.

No other details were released on the shooting, but Hannah said the gunman may have been involved in the shooting.

Updates to this story were published here.

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Raisa Habersham is the Intown Atlanta hyperlocal reporter for The Atlanta-Journal Constitution.

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