Cops: 6 shot outside SE Atlanta home as suspect walks up, opens fire

Six people were shot while standing outside a home in southeast Atlanta on Sunday afternoon, according to authorities.

Officers were called to the 1000 block of Redford Drive in the Rebel Valley Forest neighborhood around 4 p.m. and found the six victims, five of whom were taken to a hospital, police said. The sixth suffered only a graze wound.

Atlanta police Lt. Germain Dearlove told Channel 2 Action News that the victims — five men and a woman ― appeared to have been targeted. They were standing in a home’s front yard when someone walked up and opened fire. It also appeared that the victims returned fire, he said.