Atlanta shooting According to the Cobb County Police Department, authorities have located the alleged shooter of the Wednesday afternoon shooting at an Atlanta shooting medical office building following an hours-long manhunt.
Deion Patterson, the suspected shooter, was detained just before 8 p.m. ET in Cobb County, northwest of the city.
He is accused of the shooting at the Northside Hospital Midtown Medical facility that resulted in the death of a 39-year-old lady and the injuries of four more people.
According to Dr. Robert Jansen, the hospital’s head of staff, who addressed the media on Wednesday, at least three of the injured patients were sent to Grady Memorial Hospital and were there as of Wednesday night. One of the victims was still in the operating room as of 5:00 p.m. ET, according to Jansen.
71 years old to 25 years old, according to Atlanta shooting Police Chief Darin Schierbaum, are the wounded women. He said it’s unclear if the shooter targeted these individuals explicitly or whether they were either patients or staff members of the clinic.
As police look into the incident, a reason for the shooting is still unknown.
Patterson held a meeting at the establishment.
Around noon local time, police received calls reporting a shooting in the waiting area of the medical centre. This is when the day’s events began.
According to the Atlanta shooting police chief earlier in the day, Patterson’s mother was with him at the time but was not hurt. According to him, the suspected shooter’s family is working with law police.
Patterson had a meeting at the facility that day, according to later statements made by police.
He remained inside the structure for almost two minutes before making his escape on foot to a Shell petrol station nearby. He took a pickup truck that was left running at 12:30 p.m.
Police were able to follow the vehicle to Cobb County, where they focused their search on a building close to a commercial area beside Truist Park, the baseball stadium for the Atlanta Braves, and made Patterson the target of their arrest.
The investigation and ensuing manhunt encompassed a number of Atlanta-area local enforcement organisations as well as federal organisations.
Schierbaum stated earlier in the day that while the accused culprit was on the run, witnesses assisted by phoning to report sightings of him in Atlanta and other areas of Cobb County. Officials gave this and technology credit for making it possible to find Patterson.
Officers from Atlanta and Cobb County indicated that because the investigation is continuing and a criminal prosecution is pending, officials were coy about many other elements of the case.
According to Schierbaum, the suspect had “minimal contact” with the police before the incident.
A witness remembers the Atlanta shooting aftermath
According to KJ Johnson, who spoke to the media, the Atlanta shooting occurred as he was at the Northside Medical facility waiting for his son’s appointment.
He claimed to have heard pops while waiting in the office, but confused them for the sound of a motorbike backfiring. Johnson and the other patients were made aware of the incident by the office TV in the waiting area.
“At the time, we were unaware of the Atlanta shooting . However, the moment the television turned on, breaking news was broadcast. Johnson stated outside the structure, “And they indicated that there was an active shooter and they gave the address and the address was the building that we were in.
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He recalled that the gunfire happened barely two stories above him.
“Our floor was the ninth. You can thus understand that some of the people in the room became a bit anxious or uncomfortable after everyone heard the Atlanta shooting occurred on the 11th level, he added.
The medical professionals at the office escorted everyone into a safe back room as they waited for police to arrive and escort them out, according to Johnson, who said that everyone remained calm.
He said that the medical team “didn’t make it worse by making it seem like there was some imminent threat to our health.”
After he and the others were evacuated, Johnson was able to help a patient with limited mobility walk down the nine flights of stairs to safety.
According to Northside Hospital, it is helping with the police investigation.
According to the hospital’s tweet, “This tragedy is affecting all of us, and we ask for patience and prayers at this time.” On Thursday, Northside Medical’s Midtown location will be closed.
Sen. Raphael Warnock stated that because of the incident, his children were in lockdown.
Sen. Raphael Warnock spoke out against the afternoon’s events on the Senate floor on Wednesday. He said it adds another tragedy to the long series of mass shooting tragedies in America while politicians do nothing.
Georgia’s Warnock said that because of the tragedy, his own kids’ school was under lockdown.
In his speech to the Senate, he admitted, “If I’m being completely honest, I rise really with a deep sense of anger about what is happening in our country in the area of gun violence and death.”
He pointed out that he gave a similar statement in March 2021, not long after a shooter killed eight people, six of whom were of Asian heritage, in an attack on spas in the Atlanta region.
According to the Gun Violence Archive, there have been 190 mass Atlanta shooting in the United States so far this year. A mass Atlanta shooting , according to the organisation, is any incident in which there were four or more victims total, excluding the gunman.
“We act as though this is commonplace. It’s not right. Nobody should feel safe in our country, no matter where they are, according to Warnock.
He enumerated the sites where there have been so many Atlanta shooting in the United States in recent years, including schools, markets, offices, places of worship, and spas.
And today, Warnock continued, “we can add medical facilities to that list.”
Pastor Warnock stated that just praying is insufficient. He urged his colleagues Congressmen to pass comprehensive gun safety measures.
“In reality, saying that you are thinking and praying while doing nothing is contradictory. It is intended to belittle prayer. To trivialise faith, he declared. “We pray with our legs as much as with our mouths. We pray by doing things.
There will be updates to this story as it develops.