more serious treatment, to grady hospital or trauma treatment. civilians have been pushed back quite a ways and being here in downtown atlanta, a sense even of those not directly victimized by this, a sense of fear. this is wednesday, middle of the day, downtown atlanta, and now a huge police presence, shots fired, an hour later the shooter still at large. so, people are afraid and they are wondering what is happening in the heart of their city. john: and again, we asked the question of joe cardnellie do we know any specific area or danger posed by the person on the loose if he encountered someone, or are they just casting a net far and wide across the city as we see some pictures of you mentioned medical personnel exiting the building. some are wearing hair nets, may indicate they were involved in administering medical procedures at the time. again, this is an office building, it s not an actual hospital. northside hospital, the affiliated hospital is up at the intersectio
as far as sightings of the suspect, who is still on the run, they re getting multiple reports of sightings of this individual but different locations that they haven t been able to confirm. they re saying basically anyone who is a black male on the street right now with a hoodie, someone is calling about them. they are trying to follow up these credible leads. no status on those victims that were shot and, again, a hard perimeter of about a mile has been put up around this area where the incident initially happened during the lunchtime hour in midtown. this is still very much an active situation and a very fluid situation. no update on the conditions of those victims but the mother is cooperating with police and he was there for a medical appointment for himself. they declined to give further details because of hipa. they want people to pay attention that about a mile around that area is locked down currently. your understanding is that the suspect is on the run, that the s
this is your world. let s get the latest on where this starts with charles watson. woe just got an update from the atlanta miss department. we learned that officers believe deon patterson is the possible shooter that walked in to the medical facility behind me this afternoon and opened fire with multiple people. we re told at least five victims were shot, one person was killed. four others were wounded. they re at an area hospital being treated as we speak. the last 20 minutes or so, we learned more about the victims. we learned they re all women. their ages range from 25 years old to 71 years old. a 39-year-old woman was killed in this shooting today. neil, in the last 45 minutes or so, we ve seen probably the most movement we ve seen out here at the scene since the shooting was reported earlier today. we saw several officers, many on motorcycles, many in the armored swat cars move east of 14th street where we re standing right now and make ten minutes or so, we saw anothe
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