Fulton County District Attorney’s Office employee accidentally shot inside courthouse, police say

ATLANTA — Atlanta police confirmed to Channel 2 Action News that a woman was shot inside the Fulton County Courthouse.

The shooting happened just after 10 a.m. Friday in downtown Atlanta.

Channel 2′s Richard Elliot learned that a Fulton County District Attorney’s Office investigator accidentally discharged her weapon.

The round struck her in the leg.

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Police said the injury is non-life threatening and the investigator is expected to be OK.

Security remains tight at the Fulton County Courthouse with the Young Slime Life gang indictment trial going on and the recent Georgia election interference indictment that was handed up.

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