Two people were shot — one fatally — and a third badly beaten Monday during an early morning fracas outside a south Fulton County sports bar.
Police were still processing the scene at 5:30 a.m. in the parking lot of the 50 Yardline sports bar in the 7400 block of Old National Highway.
The shooting happened several hours earlier when an argument between two groups of men escalated, Channel 2 Action News reported.
“It resulted in one male being shot in the abdomen, one female being shot in the leg and another male being beaten very severely,” Fulton County police spokesman Scott McBride told Channel 2.
“All three had to be transported to Grady Memorial Hospital,” McBride said. “The gentleman shot in the abdomen is the most serious.”
That man, identified by the Fulton County Medical Examiner’s office as Terry Rankins, 24, of Stockbridge, died later Monday morning at Grady, authorities said.
Police have not released identities of the other victims or a description of the gunman.
The sports bar is in a strip shopping center at the intersection of Old National Highway and Jonesboro Road.
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