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Gunman injures three people on Atlanta soccer field before being shot by officer, police say – WGAU

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Gunman injures three people on Atlanta soccer field before being shot by officer, police say – WGAU

ATLANTA — (AP) — A gunman fatally shot three people in a downtown Atlanta food court before being fatally shot by a police officer Tuesday afternoon, authorities said.

All four people shot in the Peachtree Center food court are expected to survive, including the suspect, according to Atlanta Police Chief Darin Schierbaum.

At a news conference, Mayor Andre Dickens praised the officer who wounded the shooter.

“If he hadn’t been there, things might have gotten worse,” Dickens said.

Peachtree Center is a complex of office towers and underground shopping mall located just blocks from several hotels serving Atlanta’s busy convention area.

In the aftermath of the shooting, crowds of people gathered at a nearby intersection, many of them wondering what had happened. Several blocks of Peachtree Street were blocked off with crime scene tape as police and firefighters converged on the scene.

Elizabeth Ingram, of Atlanta, was leaving the break room at the Chick-fil-A where she works when she heard the first gunshots nearby.

“We relaxed for a minute, then we heard more shots,” she said. “So we went back down.”

Ingram said he saw people leaving on stretchers.

“You never know what can happen,” she says. “It happened out of nowhere. It was so scary that I thought I was never going to go home to my son and it scared me. My heart was beating so fast.

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