Augusta Violent Crime Defnese Lawyer – One dead, two wounded in overnight Gainesville shootings
One dead, two wounded in overnight Gainesville shootings
BY JOE KELLY STAFF posted at http://www.accessnorthga.com/detail.php?n=223762
officers went to Atlanta Street Apartments off E.E. Butler Parkway following reports a person was shot around 7:30 p.m.
GAINESVILLE – Two unrelated shootings, one of them deadly, occurred within two hours of each other on Gainesville’s Southside Monday night.
According to Gainesville Police Lieutenant Carol Martin, officers went to Atlanta Street Apartments off E.E. Butler Parkway around 7:30 p.m. following reports a person had been shot.
On the scene officers found a male victim in the apartment parking lot. He was taken to Northeast Georgia Medical Center where he was pronounced dead minutes after arrival.
Martin said investigators are pursuing several leads, but as yet there are not arrests. Martin urged anyone with information to contact the Criminal Investigations Division at 770-534-5254.
Then, around 10:30 p.m. two men were shot on Old Athens Road near Floyd Road.
According to Sheriff’s Colonel Jeff Strickland, the victims were walking down the road when they became involved in an altercation with several other men and were shot; the shooting suspects fled in an unidentified vehicle.
Both men were taken to Northeast Georgia Medical Center, where one man is listed in critical condition; the other man’s injuries are described as non-life threatening.
Strickland also urged anyone with information about the Old Athens Road shooting to contact the Hall County Sheriff’s office at 770-536-8812.
No arrests have been made in either incident.
Victims in both shootings remain unidentified pending notification of relatives.
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