Councilwoman sweetens reward to help catch campus shooting suspect

Atlanta police last week released a video showing a suspect in a shooting at a block party at the Atlanta University Center that wounded four students.

No one has stepped forth to identify that man, so on Sunday, Atlanta City Council member Cleta Winslow said she is adding $3,000 more in reward money to better incentivize someone’s good citizenship. The reward will now be $5,000.

“This is personal,” Winslow said after a short press conference near the AUC campus. “Parents send their children to our town. They need assurance that they are safe.”

Four women — two students from Spelman College, two from Clark Atlanta University — were shot or grazed Tuesday night outside the Robert W. Woodruff Library during a party before the first day of school. Police believe the young man in the video was involved in a confrontation in which four or five shots were fired in the plaza crowded with 200 students. Police said that perhaps a second possible gunman was targeted by the suspect but that the women were not intended targets.

One of the victims was shot in the chest, but all are expected to recover.

Police said they are getting some tips but have not gotten enough information to make an arrest.