Metro Atlanta
3 metro Atlanta Wal-Mart stores briefly evacuated due to bomb threats
Three Wal-Mart stores were evacuated for more than an hour Thurs., May 12, 2016. (Credit: Channel 2 Action News)
By Lauren Foreman
May 12, 2016Three metro Atlanta Wal-Mart stores were temporarily evacuated Thursday due to bomb threats.
The threats impacted the Wal-Mart store at the Mall at Stonecrest in DeKalb County, another store in the 6000 block of Jonesboro Road in Clayton County and a third location on Howell Mill Road in Atlanta, police told Channel 2 Action News.
“A few Wal-Mart stores were evacuated today for about an hour and a half each after receiving bomb threats,” Wal-Mart spokeswoman Leslee Wright said in a statement. “Police officers were called and swept the stores but found nothing in each case. The affected stores are now open for business.”
The scene at the Howell Mill Wal-Mart was cleared at 2:30 p.m., Channel 2 reported.
