RENAISSANCE, Ga. — Police are looking for the person who shot up a house Wednesday night, leaving a 12-year-old shot in the leg.
Mayor Bill Edwards of the city of Renaissance, formerly the city of South Fulton, said something has got to be done about the 10 shootings that have taken place in the same neighborhood in six months.
Edwards hosted a community meeting Thursday night to address the crime issues.
"So, I'm glad this town hall with the mayor and police is happening but residents like myself know this should've been happening," community activist Marcus Coleman told Channel 2's Tyisha Fernandes.
Coleman runs the Save Ourselves organization. He said a crackdown on gang activity in south Fulton County is long overdue.
"The little girl shot last night and the other two shootings prior to that, two children shot at a community cookout in jump houses and the shooters were apprehended, but the climate that allows that to even exist was never even thought of," Coleman said.
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The latest shooting happened on Connell Road in the Pointer Ridge subdivision late Wednesday night.
Someone fired several shots into a house. One of the bullets hit a 12-year-old girl in the leg as she slept.
Fernandes went to the home Thursday and counted five bullet holes across the home. The girl is expected to be OK.
Fulton County Police Chief Gary Stiles believes gang members shot into the house. Fernandes asked Stiles if thought the home was the target.
“I think it’s too soon for us to determine whether it was the target house, or whether it was a mistaken house, or whether there’s anybody in the house that was a specific target,” Stiles said.
Stiles said he’s alarmed by the pace at which the shootings are happening. He said the department’s gang specialist is investigating the string of incident.
Coleman said the shootings won't stop until police have more of a presence in that area.
“They have the information. The question needs to be what is taking them so long to act on it?” Coleman said.
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