Two people were killed Tuesday evening in a triple shooting at a southwest Atlanta apartment complex, police said.
Reports of multiple people shot in the 700 block of McDaniel Street took officers to the Heritage Station Family apartments at around 5:30 p.m., officials confirmed. At the complex, which is just south of Ralph David Abernathy Boulevard, police said they found the three gunshot victims.
Two of the victims, identified as 22-year-old Deonta Brown and a 15-year-old boy by the Fulton County Medical Examiner’s Office, were pronounced dead at the scene. The third, an 18-year-old man, was taken to the hospital. His name was not released.
Officials did not say what may have led to the incident or if a suspect remained at the scene.
Heritage Station Family, which sits within the Pittsburgh neighborhood, is among 275 of the metro area’s persistently dangerous complexes, according to an investigation by The Atlanta Journal-Constitution that looked into serious crimes, lax maintenance and other hazards in Atlanta neighborhoods.
From 2017 to January 2022, 167 crimes were reported at the complex, including homicides in July and November of 2019, 21 aggravated assaults, 10 robberies, two rapes and two child molestations.
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