ATLANTA — Local police are investigating a rash of shootings over the holiday weekend that left more than a dozen people injured.
Between late Saturday night and early Monday morning, there were three different shootings that left at least 15 people injured.
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A fight broke out in downtown Athens late Saturday night when gunfire rang out and 6 people were shot. One other person was also injured.
One of those violent shootings took place outside a club in Atlanta. 5 people were shot near the Marquette Lounge on Joseph E. Boone Blvd. as they attended a Black Pride celebration.
“We were just innocent bystanders,” Libby Arnold told Channel 2′s Elizabeth Rawlins. Arnold says her son was one of the victims in this shooting.
Athens-Clarke County police say the man behind that shooting, 21-year-old Pharoah Williams turned himself in on Monday.
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Jason Simpson is in custody and facing charges after investigators say he got into a fight with one of the victims and started shooting.
While none of the cases are related to one another, there is a noticeable trend of when and where these shootings happened. Each took place either late night or early morning in or near a bar and each began as a fight.
“It’s always something -- If it’s not fighting, it’s gunshots,” Tarell Heard, a witness to the shooting near Marquette Lounge said.
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So far, none of these shootings have turned fatal.
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