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1 dead, 4 hurt in shooting inside Atlanta medical facility
Updated On: 04 May, 2023 08:30 AM IST | Atlanta | AP
Hale said she called the operating room manager, who told her there was an active shooter and she should go back to her car. Hale said police kept her from leaving the parking garage and later checked each car and escorted her out to be interviewed
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Police officers work the scene of a shooting at a Northside Hospital medical facility on May 3, 2023 in Atlanta, Georgia. Pic/AFP
Police said a man opened fire inside the waiting room of an Atlanta medical facility, killing one woman and injuring four others Wednesday as authorities swarmed the city`s bustling midtown neighbourhood in search of the 24-year-old suspect. Authorities said the gunman, who police identified as Deion Patterson, stole a car and fled after shooting five women on the 11th floor of a Northside medical building shortly after noon. The facility is located in a commercial area filled with office towers and high-rise apartments.
"We believe (Patterson) carjacked a vehicle a short distance away and was able to flee the scene as the law enforcement agencies were descending on this area," Atlanta Police Chief Darin Schierbaum said during a news conference. Schierbaum said a 39-year-old woman was pronounced dead at the scene of the shooting. The four injured victims were also women, aged 25, 39, 56 and 71. Those four "are fighting for their lives at Grady Hospital," Atlanta Mayor Andre Dickens told reporters. Police asked anyone with information about Patterson`s whereabouts to call 911 and not approach him. Atlanta police said a vehicle that was stolen a few blocks away from the shooting Wednesday afternoon has been recovered in suburban Cobb County, though officials did not say whether that was the vehicle they believe Patterson had stolen.
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