Police were searching Wednesday afternoon for two men suspected in a double shooting at a south DeKalb County apartment complex.
The shooting happened about 9 a.m. at the Aspen Woods Apartment Homes in the 3300 block of Flat Shoals Road, but was related to a fight police responded to earlier.
“This morning around 7:30 a.m., uniform officers responded to a juvenile fight in this area,” DeKalb police Capt. Stephen Fore said. “They responded and broke up that fight, apparently it had something to do with bullying or something to that effect, and about 9:20 a.m. we received a call of a person being shot in that same area.”
Fore said two people have been shot; an 18-year-old in the hand and a 21-year-old in the stomach with a handgun. Both were transported to an area hospital.
The suspects fled the scene in a dark SUV and have not been located.
Police had set up a perimeter around the shooting scene, which is near the intersection of Flat Shoals and Candler roads, just south of The Gallery at South DeKalb mall.
“We don’t believe that the suspect that actually did the shooting this morning was directly involved with the earlier fight,” Fore said. “We believe that it’s a known party.”
Shortly after 4 p.m., Fore released the names of two suspects believed involved in the shooting. Corey Reese, 32, is 5-foot-8 and weighs 186 pounds, Fore said. The second suspect, John Reese, 34, is 5-foot-6 and weighs 135 pounds. The Reeses are brothers and both have outstanding warrants for aggravated assault, Fore said.
Victor Willis said the people shot were his cousins.
“A car pulled up with two people and one of them had a gun,” Willis told The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
“They drove around in the apartments and they got out and they started shooting,” he said. “I don’t know who they were shooting at, they were just shooting.”
Willis said that when the gunfire rang out, “I just rode the other way on my bike.”
Nearby Flat Shoals Elementary School was placed on lockdown as a precaution while police searched for the gunman.
Staff writers Robert E. Lee and Alexis Stevens contributed to this report.
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