3 injured in Edgewood Avenue shooting ‘caught in crossfire,’ police say
Three people, including a security guard, were injured Friday morning when gunfire erupted outside an Edgewood Avenue bar, Atlanta police said.
The shots were fired around 12:30 a.m. on the sidewalk in front of Harold’s Chicken and Ice Bar in the historic Sweet Auburn neighborhood, police confirmed. The injured security guard was taken to Grady Memorial Hospital and was considered stable, police said.
The two other victims, a man and a woman, separately drove themselves to Grady, according to police. The woman was considered stable, but the man was seriously injured. None of the victims have been publicly identified.
The shooting began after a fight between two suspects, police said. In surveillance video, the security guard and four others can be seen standing at the bar’s front entrance when gunfire breaks out just down the street. The two suspects appear to fire repeatedly at each other and then flee in different directions, with one running past the bar.
“It was just random bullets and everyone was running and scattering along the block,” bar co-owner Bobbie Robinson told Channel 2 Action News.
The three people shot appeared to get caught in the crossfire and were not the intended targets, police said. Robinson said her security guard will need surgery but is expected to be OK.
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Henri Hollis is a restaurant critic and food reporter for The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, where he covers Atlanta’s restaurants, chefs and dining culture. As part of the AJC’s Food & Dining team, he reviews new restaurants, reports on industry trends and explores metro Atlanta’s culinary scene through the neighborhoods and people that shape it.
