Mother, teenage twins shot inside home near Stone Mountain

A mother and her teenage twins were shot in their home near Stone Mountain just after midnight Wednesday, according to authorities.

DeKalb County police said they got a call at around 12:10 a.m. about a shooting in the 400 block of Rock Meadow Drive. The scene is not far from the Wade Walker Family YMCA.

When officers arrived, they found the 42-year-old mother and her twin boy and girl, both 13, with gunshot wounds. They were rushed to a hospital with injuries that weren’t life-threatening, police said. Eight other people were in the house but were uninjured.

Three people were injured in the shooting on Rock Meadow Drive.

Investigators canvassed the scene through the night, and by 5:30 a.m., dozens of evidence markers appearing to record where shell casings had fallen were still scattered in the street in front of the home. Multiple bullets had also pierced a window.

At least three bullets struck a window at a Rock Meadow Drive home.

Police said that initial information points to some unknown suspects shooting at the house several times before fleeing. It is not clear if they were in a vehicle or on foot.