Atlanta

Girl stable after being shot twice while in her home

ATLANTA — A neighborhood is on edge after someone shot up a house in a cul-de-sac, hitting a little girl twice.

So far, no one has been arrested in the incident.

“They were loud as … I don’t know what. All I heard was pow, pow, pow,” neighbor Mitch Carter said.

The longtime resident told Channel 2's Tyisha Fernandes that the late-night gunshots shocked him Wednesday. He said he's never heard gunshots so close to his home before.

“I thought it was here, but when I saw all the police cars, I didn’t come out the house,” Carter said.

Carter said it was around 11 p.m. when someone fired several shots into his neighbor’s house on Susan Lane in southwest Atlanta.

At least two of the bullets went through the front window of the home and both shots hit a 10-year-old girl.


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Police said she was sitting close to the window in the living room watching TV.

Some neighbors were afraid to talk on camera, worried the shooter was still on the loose.

But they did tell Fernandes that the shooting happened during a birthday party at the house Wednesday and several children were there.

"I heard them screaming over there and then, when I came out the door, the little girl got shot and all the kids were crying. I grabbed my children and just put my children on the bed,” Carter said.

Carter told Fernandes that he's been living on the street for 30 years and, at one time, retired people owned all of the homes. He said things are different now.

The girl was taken to Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta at Egleston, where she is recovering.

Investigators said she’s expected to be OK.

In the meantime, neighbors said, they are praying for the girl, and praying for a quick arrest in the case.