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Gunman Stable After CNN Center Shooting

Posted: 1:36 pm EDT April 3, 2007Updated: 11:34 am EDT April 4, 2007

The man accused of shooting and killing a former girlfriend at the CNN Center in Downtown Atlanta Tuesday remains in stable condition on Wednesday.

SLIDESHOW: Suspect Shot By Security Guard

WSB-TV Reporter Lori Geary expects to have a copy of the police report on the shooting Wednesday afternoon.

Results of the autopsy on the female victim should also be released Wednesday.

Police spokesman Officer James Polite says two were arguing near the main entrance of the complex when the man pulled a gun and shot the woman, and then he was shot by a CNN security guard.

Polite says the man -- identified as Arthur Mann, in his late 30s -- was brought to Grady Memorial Hospital and is being charged with homicide.

A spokeswoman for the Texas-based Omni Hotel chain identifies the employee as 22-year-old Clara Riddles of College Park.

The spokesman says Riddle stocked and restocked honor bars in rooms at the hotel.

CNN reported that the offices of its Internet operations were immediately evacuated. Video footage showed police pointing guns at a man lying on the ground inside the building. Police cordoned off an area by the escalators near the main entrance of the building, facing Centennial Olympic Park.

Besides CNN and the Omni, the complex indluces a large atrium, food court, a book store and some souvenir shops. It's connected to Philips Arena, home of the NBA's Atlanta Hawks and NHL's Atlanta Thrashers. Nearby is the Georgia Dome, the home of the Atlanta Falcons and where college basketball's national championship game was played last night.

Don Shields, manager of the Atlanta Braves Clubhouse store, which is just down the hall from where the shooting, said when he heard the "bang, bang, bang," he immediately yanked down the store's entrance gate and quickly escorted the store's two dozen customers at the time into a back room for their safety.

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