ATLANTA — A massive police presence lined the streets of Piedmont Avenue Sunday night after a person was shot at a RaceTrac gas station across from a dining hall of the Georgia State University campus, Atlanta Police confirmed.
APD said their officers were responding to a shooting at 120 Piedmont Avenue, the location of a RaceTrac gas station. There, they found a male victim who had been shot in the back. He was transported to a hospital alert, conscious, and breathing. The RaceTrac is the same spot where a GSU student was shot and killed on Dec. 4.
Officers add that two groups were shooting at each other when the victim got caught in the middle and was hit. At this time, police don't know what started the shooting in the first place.
They said they also responded to another shooting just up the road off Edgewood Avenue at 12:18 a.m. They said this "appears to be separate" from the crowd gathering near GSU. This person had non-life threatening injuries.
The following video shows the police presence as of 10 p.m. at the intersection of Piedmont Avenue NE and John Wesley Dobbs Avenue NE.
That's when roughly 80 to 100 people panicked and ran after multiple gunshots rang out near the intersection of Piedmont Avenue NE and John Wesley Dobbs Avenue NE, according to 11Alive's Tresia Bowles, who was at the scene.
She was reporting on a story regarding issues at the same location from earlier Sunday morning, when a large crowd was unruly. Cars were seen performing donuts and vehicles appeared to be damaged with people stepping on them.
A short time later, a heavy police presence with at least six patrol cars was seen controlling the crowd packed into the middle of the street. That happened just outside The Mix Apartments, a student housing complex near campus.
GSU officials said the person shot at the RaceTrac location was not a student.