Three people were shot Tuesday evening at a troubled apartment complex in Buckhead, police said.
Officers were called to the 32Hundred complex on Lenox Road, just around the corner from the Lenox MARTA station and Lenox Square. Two 911 calls were made around 8:20 p.m. reporting that a person had been shot and that gunshots were fired in the area.
Two victims were found by officers at the complex and they were taken to a hospital. A third gunshot victim was dropped off at Grady Memorial Hospital.
According to an incident report, a man who was shot in the back told police he was not able to feel his legs. A woman, who police found on the fourth floor of one of the buildings, was shot multiple times, including in the stomach and back. The man who was dropped off at Grady was shot in the chest, police said.
No details have been provided on a suspect or what may have led to the shooting.
It’s not the first shooting at the complex this year. In February, three people were shot and taken to the hospital, police said. The victims included a 12-year-old boy and his 31-year-old father.
In January 2022, a woman told police she was robbed by several men and beaten at an intersection near the complex. In October 2021, a man was shot multiple times at the complex, police said.
The apartment was among 275 of the metro area’s persistently dangerous complexes, according to The Atlanta Journal-Constitution’s “Dangerous Dwellings” investigation that looked into serious crimes, lax maintenance and other hazards in Atlanta neighborhoods.
Police reported 90 crimes at the address from 2017 to January 2022. They included seven aggravated assaults, seven robberies, one rape and two child molestations. The complex is on the city of Atlanta’s 2023 list of properties to be targeted because of chronic crime and condition problems.
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