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Police searching for gunman who shot up Atlanta home with 10 kids inside, injuring teen

ATLANTA — Police are looking for the gunman who shot up a northwest Atlanta home early Thursday morning and left a teenage girl with a fractured skull.

Neighbors don’t think the girl was the target, but they’re afraid someone else in the home was and the shooters might come back.

“My youngest son is three months, so it was really scary,” said a neighbor who doesn’t want her name published.

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She was up at 3:00 a.m. on Thursday feeding her newborn when she heard dozens of shots on Eleanor Terrace in NW Atlanta.

“It was about 50 shots at the end of the street. Then all of a sudden it stopped, and then it came again. They came right in front of my house and 50 more shots, and just all over the ground casings everywhere,” said a neighbor.

The father in the home told Channel 2 Action News that his teenage daughter is now at Grady Memorial Hospital, recovering from a fractured skull..

He said she was hit during the second round of shots.

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Police told Channel 2′s Tyisha Fernandes that the shooters were specifically aiming for the second-floor windows where a bunch of boys usually hang out.

“I’m tired of it. I’m just ready to go, I’m ready to go. I’ve never dealt with this over here before, but I guess it’s just this young crowd. It’s just a lot,” said a neighbor.

Neighbors said the drive by shooters looked like kids.

According to the father, there were a total of 10 kids in the house when the shooting happened.

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