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13-year-old shot 4 times overnight, mother says; Atlanta police investigating

ATLANTA — An Atlanta teenager was shot four times early on Sunday morning.

We’ll bring you the latest updates on this incident, LIVE on Channel 2 Action News at Noon.

Channel 2’s Bryan Mims was out near Hank Aaron Drive in southeast Atlanta, where the mother of a 13-year-old says her son was shot four times, twice in each side of his buttocks.

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Police are investigating the incident, which happened at the Capitol Vanira Apartments on Vanira Avenue.

Neighbors who live nearby, but did not want to do an on-camera interview, told Channel 2 Action News that they’d heard a lot of gunfire at the apartment complex.

At the scene, Mims saw more than two dozen evidence markers, which are often used to mark where shell casings from gunfire fall.

Police at the scene said officers were also investigating other nearby locations that could be connected to the incident.

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