ATLANTA — Police are still searching for the 15-year-old boy they say is the shooter of a deadly double shooting in southwest Atlanta.
SWAT teams and officers in full tactical gear showed up Monday night and spent hours in a standoff outside the house where they believed the suspect was. Around 1 a.m., they learned the house was empty.
The neighborhood, which is near the Camp Creek Medical Center, is made up of single-family homes.
The shooting happened on Saville Street just before 5 p.m. When officers arrived, they found a 25-year-old man dead and a 40-year-old woman who had been shot. She was taken to a nearby hospital where she is stable.
Police have not identified either victim.
A neighbor said that some of the teenagers who got into the fight may have just gotten off of the school bus.
“I was actually trying to take a nap and the gunshots woke me up,” the neighbor said. She didn’t want to be identified, but said she witnessed some of the commotion, arguments, and fighting between two groups of teens outside her home.
“It was a scuffle, just real quick, and then they went their own separate ways,” she said. “And the next thing I know, there were like nine gunshots back-to-back.”
The neighbor said she’s lived in the community for several years and never experienced such an explosion of violence, which she called senseless and put many people’s lives in danger.
“Anybody could have gotten those stray bullets or anything,” she said. “It’s just crazy.”