ATLANTA — A neighbor in a Southwest Atlanta apartment complex where a 7-year-old boy was hit during a drive-by shooting says this isn’t the first random shooting in the area.
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The child is in the hospital recovering. The bullets went through the boy’s window and all the way through to another apartment unit, where a woman was asleep with her kids.
She is so afraid she asked Channel 2 Action News not to identify her. However, she says the gunfire was very loud.
“It was so loud it was like they were standing right here in my living room,” the neighbor said.
She wanted to share what happened when the bullets came flying through her walls and woke her up.
“I was in the bed. I clenched the bed so hard, I’m like, what the (expletive) was that? I laid there, my heart pounding bad. Didn’t want to move like I said.”
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When she got out of bed at the Ashley Cascade apartments on Kinberly Way, she saw the damage the bullets caused. She walked Channel 2’s Tom Jones through her apartment to show him all the holes.
“It knocked all the rice out the [expletive] package,” she said.
That was one bullet hole.
She showed him another hole in the wall that she says knocked over a liquor bottle.
“Yep. It was sitting right here,” she explained.
A bullet put a huge hole in her mirror. Police say the same bullets fired during a drive-by shooting around two Thursday morning hit the 7-year-old boy as he slept in his apartment. He was hit several times in the arm. He is recovering in the hospital.
The neighbor had no idea he had been hit until she saw police everywhere.
“That’s when they brought the little boy out on a stretcher,” she said.
She says this isn’t the first random shooting in this area.
“It’s never been this close. I hear it all the time,” she told Jones.
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The neighbor says we have to find a way to stop people from firing guns recklessly, putting people’s lives in danger, especially kids.
“That could have been my kid,” she said.
She says her kids are traumatized by this random shooting.
A family member of the 7-year-old boy says they can’t speak about the incident right now because they’re focused on the child.
Police continue to investigate this shooting.