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Police are searching for a shooter who opened fire right after an 81-year-old woman's son called for an end to the violence that claimed her life.
Mildred Martin was shot by a stray bullet as she played cards on her front porch last week.
Channel 2's Matt Belanger checked with Atlanta police and they told Belanger officers searched the neighborhood and could not find the person who fired the shot.
Witnesses say the timing of the shot is what is so disturbing.
Kenneth Martin showed Belanger the bullet hole still in the porch window of his mother's northwest Atlanta home.
"She was my strength," Kenneth Martin said. "She was very concerned with how drugs were coming into the neighborhood."
But moments after Kenneth Martin called for an end to violence Friday night another gunshot echoed through the streets of the neighborhood.
A Channel 2 Action News photographer was talking to a Georgia State Patrol chaplain at the scene when it happened.
"It's frightening," said Chaplain H. J. Bridgewater. "It is incumbent to all of us as community persons to oversee our neighbors and neighborhood police can't do it all."
Bridgewater heard the shot and called 911.
Martin said his mother always kept an eye on the neighborhood.
A handwritten note on the door thanks the community for support and announces funeral arrangements Saturday morning.
"She would want you to be responsible for your actions. I think that would be her message," Kenneth Martin said.
Mildred Martin's funeral will be held at 11 a.m. at the Andrew Chennault Funeral Home in northwest Atlanta.
Atlanta police arrested Dominique Bryant and Johnny Avery so far in connection with the shot that killed her.
