ATLANTA — A man has been taken to the hospital after he was shot by an Atlanta police officer on Tuesday afternoon.
Police officials say they were called to an apartment complex around 2 p.m. by a woman who said she had gotten into a dispute with a man she had recently met.
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She told police that he became angry, damaged some property and left. She said he later came back armed with a knife and confronted a maintenance worker. That’s when the maintenance worker went into the leasing office, locked the door and called 911.
When four officers arrived, they told the man to drop the knife.
Instead, he lunged at the officers and one of them fired their weapon, hitting the man once or twice. He was taken to the hospital in critical condition.
NewsChopper 2 flew over the area and saw that Lenox Road is blocked as police investigate. There is no estimated time for the road to reopen.
The Georgia Bureau of Investigation confirmed they’d been requested to assist by APD.
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