A southwest Atlanta family says a bullet flew through their wall and landed in their baby's crib during a 15-minute shootout at their apartment complex.
On Tuesday, one witness said she saw a green car pull up, and three men jumped out of the car. She said they started firing, and another group of men returned fire.
WSB-TV's Craig Lucie found bullets in the walls and in cars at the complex. The mother of a 6-month-old got emotional thinking about what could have happened. Saquainda Anderson said she knows she could have lost her child.
“That could have been my baby’s life. And you can’t get that back worth nothing,” she said.
Anderson said she was only gone for about 30 minutes. She returned to find residents in the streets and police investigating after bullets flew over people’s heads and into the sides of apartments. Anderson found one of them and took it to an officer.
“I just found (the bullet) in my baby's bed. That could have been my baby in the bed. He told me, ‘Thank God it wasn’t your bed,” Anderson said.
The bullet came through the wall, hit the back of the bed and ricocheted before it landed in the crib.
“Everybody was shooting back and forth. It was like a real shootout, probably for 30 minutes,” Nicole Johnson said.
She said shootings happen at the complex all the time.
Less than two months ago, a man was shot and killed. While Atlanta police said no one was hit this time, Anderson said another child was nearly shot.
So far, there are no reports of arrests in Tuesday's shooting.
