Police search for 2 men who shot mother at Lenox Square

ATLANTA — A mother is in the hospital after police say she was shot Wednesday evening while leaving Lenox Square with her boyfriend.

Now, authorities are reviewing security video to find the two people responsible for the shooting.

Channel 2 Action News has learned the woman's baby was in the car at the time of the shooting.

"The young woman was still in the car. Obviously, in a great amount distress. It looks to me like she was was fighting for her life," Carson Anderson told Channel 2’s Nefertiti Jaquez.

Anderson said he had just pulled up to Benihana to grab a bite to eat when he realized the parking lot of the restaurant was roped off with crime scene tape.

Seconds later, he said, medics rushed to pull the woman out of an Audi. Anderson said she was covered in blood from an apparent gunshot wound.

"The paramedics moved very quickly to get her out of the vehicle," Anderson said.

But while it all ended at the restaurant, police say the whole thing started at Lenox Square.

Cops say the 23-year-old woman was with her boyfriend and their son, touring the mall and window shopping.

Investigators told Jaquez that as the family made their way to their car they realized two men were right behind them.

"The couple immediately got in the car. Put their baby in the car. One of the suspects climbed inside in the back seat and produced a weapon,"  Sgt. Warren Pickard with the Atlanta Police Department said.

Police say one suspect jumped into the car with the family while the other played lookout. They say the gunman demanded their money and the jewelry they had just purchased at Forever Diamonds.

The couple told the man that they didn't buy anything, police said, and that's when the suspect reached over and shot the young mother in the stomach, before he and his accomplice made a run for it.

"I can say we already have it on camera,”  Pickard said.

Now, investigators are hoping surveillance video cameras surrounding the mall will give them a clue to finding the two men who did this.

Anyone with information on this case is asked to call Crime Stoppers at 404-577-8477.

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