Three people were wounded after exchanging gunfire late Tuesday morning in West End.
The shooting happened shortly after 11 a.m. in the 700 block of Lee Street in the Bank of America parking lot across the street from the West End MARTA station.
The men apparently met in the parking lot for a transaction involving computers, Atlanta police spokeswoman Officer Kim Jones said.
When officers arrived, two wounded men were found in the parking lot, while the third wounded man had carjacked a person in line at the ATM, Jones said. That man drove the carjacking victim's SUV to another location and was transported to a hospital by a private vehicle.
Atlanta police Lt. Bryan Paden told the AJC that the three male victims were taken to Grady Memorial Hospital. No names have been released.
The men were out of surgery Monday afternoon and listed in stable condition, Jones said. No charges were reported yet in the incident Tuesday afternoon.
Doug Garrett was inside the bank when he heard multiple gunshots.
“All of a sudden, the employees told us to get down and they locked the doors and we all kind of moved toward the back,” Garrett said.
“From what I understand, one guy was trying to sell a computer, they had a gun and he had a gun, which was good in this case,” Garrett said.
“I heard like two shots, three shots, then like five shots,” said Lamar Wilson, who lives nearby. “I took a peep out the window and I saw one guy running, but I didn’t know what had actually happened. I thought they were robbing the bank.”
Wilson called the shootout “pretty crazy – make you want to move crazy.”
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