patterson is a suspect. the man hunt underway right now. let s begin on the ground in atlanta with charles watson. hi, charles. good afternoon, gillian. at this point in this investigation, police are having folks here in the midtown area shelter in place. you can see here behind me there s heavy police presence out here. police are starting to condense this crime scene some and move it back closer to the building where the shooting is presumed to have happened. you mentioned just a few moments ago, police released the identity of a suspect, the man that police believe is behind the shooting that happened here in midtown this morning. he s identified as deon patterson. he is a 24-year-old man and police are asking folks to be on the lookout for patterson. urging the public not to approach him and call 911 instead because he is considered armed and dangerous. now, we just got an update from police a few moments ago. they said they were aware of a carjacking in the vicinity o
prior experience that the suspect is no longer anywhere near the crime scene or does this indicate something else to you like maybe they are close to an apprehension? i would go with the former. we don t know what is going on off site. for them to take that step, the police have taken two macrolevel steps here. they have lifted the shelter in place and they have also offered a reward, right? the reward comes out very early in this caper. so it tells us a couple things. to lift the order, they must really feel secure that they have a good idea of where he is. you certainly don t want to lift that order. people start going about their normal business and he reemerges. nobody is making that decision. everybody is proceeding cautiously. the fact that they would issue the $10,000 reward. for a municipality, $10,000 is a drop in the bucket but may be