A man was shot Wednesday evening when he confronted a group of people who had been trespassing on a construction site near the Edgewood-Candler Park MARTA station, police said.
Officers were called to the 1400 block of La France Street in northeast Atlanta around 7 p.m. and found a man with a gunshot wound to the hip, according to a statement from Atlanta police. The man was taken to a hospital and was said to be stable.
Investigators determined the victim was shot after confronting a group of minors, according to the statement. One member of the group pulled out a handgun and fired several shots, striking the victim once, police said. The minors then ran from the scene.
Police did not say how old the suspects are or how the victim was affiliated with the construction site, which is the third phase of a residential and commercial project on the south side of the MARTA station.
The shooting was the first of four Atlanta police investigated within as many hours Wednesday night.
About 40 minutes later, police were called to the 2300 block of Abner Place in the Carver Hills neighborhood of northwest Atlanta, according to a news release. There, they found a woman with a gunshot wound to the leg. She was taken to a hospital and was said to be stable.
Just after 8:15 p.m., officers responded to the Vesta Adams Park apartment complex at 1991 Delowe Drive in southwest Atlanta, the same neighborhood in which a 21-year-old man was shot and killed just after midnight on Valentine’s Day. Wednesday’s victim had been shot in the lower back while standing in the parking lot, a news release states. That victim was taken to a hospital and was said to be stable.
Then, around 10:40 p.m., a 6-year-old boy was shot in the hand in the Pittsburgh neighborhood of southwest Atlanta, according to a news release. The shooting appeared to be self-inflicted, police said, adding that the child’s 82-year-old grandmother was in the home at the time of the incident and is cooperating with investigators.
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