Nearly two dozens shots were fired during a Friday night altercation near Grady High School, leaving a teenager in critical condition and a passerby wounded, Atlanta police said.
According to a police incident report released Saturday, the 18-year-old victim was leaving Grady’s football game with Carver High School when he and other members of his group were confronted by “four or five males” near Monroe Drive and 8th Street. The suspects reportedly “asked if they had a problem with them.”
“According to the victim, he thought there was going to be a fist fight, but someone from the other group pulled guns and started shooting at him,” the incident report said. “He said that he ran and didn’t realize that he had been shot until he entered a nearby restaurant.”
The victim, a student at Crim Open Campus High School, was shot in the back and taken to Grady Memorial Hospital in critical condition, police said.
A 52-year-old woman was driving through the intersection during the shooting and stray bullets hit her in the ankle and grazed her head, police said. She was taken to Atlanta Medical Center in stable condition.
The incident report said 21 .40-caliber shell casings were recovered from the scene.
As of Saturday morning, no arrests had been made.
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