Eleven people were shot, five of them fatally, between Thursday at 6:00 p.m. and Friday at 6:00 p.m. in Democrat-controlled Atlanta, Georgia.
WSB-TV reported that the first fatal shooting of the 24-hour time frame occurred around 6:30 p.m. Thursday, when someone was shot and killed at “an apartment complex on Campbellton Road.”
Half an hour later police received calls on a shooting on Powers Ferry Road and found 43-year-old Curtis Coleman dead inside a vehicle.
Twenty-nine-year-old Faisal Norley was shot and killed at Pleasant Lake Village in Duluth around 7:50 p.m. Police believe the shooting was the result of an argument between two people.
The fourth fatal shooting of the 24-hour time time frame occurred early Friday, when an unidentified person was shot and killed “in front of a tattoo shop on Chamblee Dunwoody Road.”
Police responded to the fifth fatal shooting just before 5:00 a.m. Friday. The shooting was reported to have occurred at 1783 Cheshire Bridge Road, which is where police found two wounded individuals. One of the wounded individuals later died at a hospital.
Also on Thursday, People magazine announced that rapper Quavo “is launching a $100,000 gun prevention program in Atlanta.”
The $100,000 will be dispersed via $10,000 grants designated to organizations working to reduce gun violence in Atlanta.
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