‘I just want y’all to put the guns down:’ Community reacts to shooting at metro shopping center

EAST POINT, Ga. — Police continue to investigate a Tuesday afternoon shooting at an East Point strip mall.

At around 12:45 p.m., police arrived at the plaza, finding a man with gunshot wounds to his torso. Police say the man was part of a shootout at around noon with three other men.

The three other men fled before authorities arrived.

The man was transported to a hospital with unknown injuries.

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East Point investigators told Channel 2′s Tom Jones that the shooting started when one man decided to confront another man on the sidewalk.

While speaking to Channel 2 Action News, workers at the plaza shared their reaction to yet another metro Atlanta shooting.

“I just want y’all to put the guns down. Put the guns down,” a barber from Wilcutz Barbershop said.

“I was just about to go to lunch. And I was about to come out the door but thank God I didn’t,” plaza worker Lolita Evans said. “The world done got so crazy. People shooting at all times of day. It really doesn’t matter anymore.”

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The three men ran towards Sylvan Road after the shooting, police say.

Anyone with information on the shooting is asked to contact East Point Police via Facebook, Instagram or 404-559-6300.

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