DeKalb County

DeKalb County police investigate shooting of 11-year-old outside skating rink

DEKALB COUNTY, Ga. — DeKalb County police are looking for witnesses and possibly video to help them solve an early Sunday morning shooting that has left an 11-year-old boy in critical condition at an area hospital.

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Officers said they were called to the Golden Glide Skating Rink at 2750 Wesley Chapel Road a little before 1 a.m. on Sunday. That was when officers found the 11-year-old boy in the parking lot, in front of the doors to the building, lying on the ground with a gunshot wound.

We have the latest on the boy’s condition, starting on Channel 2 Action News at 4 p.m.

DeKalb County detectives are still trying to piece together the sequence of events that led up to the shooting.

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Police are asking anyone with information about this incident to call the DeKalb County Police Department’s Homicide/Assault Unit at 770-724-7850.

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