Police are searching for the driver of a vehicle that smashed into a northwest Atlanta townhouse Tuesday morning.
Five children were asleep upstairs when the car hit the home on Magnolia Way and pushed in the front door shortly after midnight, Atlanta police said. While none of the children were injured, a woman said she was hurt when the door fell on her leg.
Officers were on their way to investigate the incident at the Magnolia Park apartments when they received another call about shots fired in the area. They discovered a black Hyundai Tucson abandoned in the parking lot of the Villas at the Dome apartment complex on Rhodes Street.
According to a police report obtained by AJC.com, the vehicle had “heavy front-end damage.” It was parked halfway in a parking spot outside the complex.
A resident told police she watched the damaged SUV pull up to the spot “at a high rate of speed” and saw a man wearing a black hooded sweatshirt and white tennis shoes jump out, according to the report.
The man flagged down another black SUV, she said. The woman took a photo of that vehicle, which she provided to police.
“The second black SUV then pulled up next to the damaged vehicle, and the driver got inside of the passenger's side of the second SUV and the vehicle left the scene,” an officer said in the report.
It is unclear if the damaged black SUV is the same vehicle that hit the townhouse on Magnolia Way. Both incidents are still under investigation, according to police.
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