Active shooter Atlanta, GA, - Captured (Updated)

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The shooter has been captured. Only the information below has currently been released. A police press conference will be held later today.

The suspect’s mother has stated that he was unhappy with the medical treatment he had been receiving.

NBC News

A man accused of opening fire in an Atlanta medical facility waiting room Wednesday, killing one woman and wounding four others, is in custody, police said.

Atlanta police announced the apprehension of 24-year-old Deion Patterson at around 8 p.m., almost eight hours after the deadly shooting.

The shooting occurred shortly after noon, police said. Patterson fled in a vehicle he carjacked and later abandoned, Atlanta Police Chief Darin Schierbaum told reporters.

The suspect and that stolen vehicle were seen by Department of Transportation cameras in Cobb County, northwest of Atlanta, around 12:30 p.m., county police Sgt. Wayne Delk said.

• Shooter at large, but shooting has stopped
  
• Downtown Atlanta Northside Medical Center
  
• [s]According to obtained police dispatch records, the shooting may
  have been focused on one person in a specific room of the Laureate
  Medical Group inside the medical center[-s] - Reports vary
  
• CNN reports the shooting happened after a man became enraged during
  a visit to a medical facility and opened fire, police said. He was accompanied
  by his mother, who was not injured, police said.
  
• The Midtown Atlanta gunman opened fire in a waiting room on the 11th floor
  of the medical center, according to police. The shooter shot five people, all women,
  one of whom died at the scene, according to the Atlanta Police Department
  
• Police identified the suspect, who is still at large, as 24-year-old Deion Patterson.
  They said he has military experience and is considered armed and dangerous.
  
• 1 fatality and at least four others were injured, three critically
  
  

[Mr645]

When criminals put down their firearms, I won't need to carry mine

[pdq]

I need my gun because everyone else has one.

:facepalm:

[gabester]

Mr645 wrote:
When criminals put down their firearms, I won't need to carry mine

Just imagine what that scene could have been like if he'd had an AR-15 instead of a handgun!

[Acer]

gabester wrote:
[quote=Mr645]
When criminals put down their firearms, I won't need to carry mine

Just imagine what that scene could have been like if he'd had an AR-15 hammer instead of a handgun!
FTFY

[graylocks]

i started receiving text alerts on this at 1:35pm advising me to shelter in place. I'm in the Riverdale and nowhere near Midtown. My son at work in almost Carrollton fulton county did not receive alerts.

btw, 88911 is a legit short code for civil alerts.

[Speedy]

gabester wrote:
[quote=Mr645]
When criminals put down their firearms, I won't need to carry mine

Just imagine what that scene could have been like if he'd had an AR-15 instead of a handgun!
Or if the victim(s) had AR-15’s on their person. We need to arm our medical providers!

[Lemon Drop]

We don't have to live like this.

[rgG]

My neighbor came over and told me about this when she brought me my mail. I have been out of town for a couple of weeks

[vision63]

Lemon Drop wrote:
We don't have to live like this.

I don't know how we'll ever stop one person. We can fight an army, we can fight a rogue group. Anything that can generate patterns. But a single human? We're all disgruntled about one thing or another. We have to figure out a way to help people to not want to destroy one another.