Crime & Safety
Drive-By Shooting Near Midtown's Ponce City Market Injures Seven
Two of the victims are in critical condition in the Thursday morning shooting.
ATLANTA -- Seven people were injured and two are in critical condition in what police are calling a drive-by shooting early Thursday morning near Ponce City Market. Police said the incident happened around 4 am. No fatalities have been reported.
Police said they arrived on scene to find six victims shot; a seventh victim had already been taken to a local hospital by a private vehicle.
All of the victims were in their early to mid 30s, police said.
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Police said the suspects were in a dark colored and silver colored sedan.
Ponce City Market is a massive mixed-use complex in the heart of Midtown and near the Old Fourth Ward. The market building itself was formerly a Sears Roebuck distribution warehouse.
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