Man shot while breaking up fight relieved by arrests

ATLANTA — Police have arrested two teens in the case of a man who was shot while trying to break up a fight. But officers say the shooter remains on the loose.
 
Officers have charged Johnathan Grant and Devin Fyfe, both 17, with aggravated assault surrounding the shooting of Jamie Pruitt. 
 
It was Monday when officers say Pruitt, a father of two, tried to break up the brawl involving two groups of teens on To Lani Farm Road near Stone Mountain.
 
Detectives say several teens got guns and one of them shot Pruitt in the chest. 
 
Pruitt's wife told Channel 2's Tom Jones the gunman needs to know he almost ruined her family.
 
"You could have taken somebody's life. Right now he's still fighting for his life," Naterra Pruitt said.
 
Jamie Pruitt is still recovering at Grady Memorial Hospital. It was in the hospital where Pruitt and his wife got the news police arrested two teens in the case.
 
"I said, 'Baby, they have two people in custody,' and he smiled," Naterra Pruitt said.
 
Officers say Grant and Fyfe opened fire but didn't hit Pruitt. They hope to arrest the shooter soon.
 
"We're in the process right now of identifying him. We have an idea of who he may be," said Lt. Antonio Catlin of the DeKalb County Police Department.       
 
Pruitt says he has no animosity toward the shooter. He says the teen really didn't want to shoot him. He thinks peer pressure forced him to pull the trigger.
 
"The pressure of hearing other guys saying, 'Shoot him, shoot him, shoot him,''' Pruitt said.
 
Naterra Pruitt appreciates officers' hard work arresting two people. She wants the shooter to know how close he was to ending her husband's life.
 
"You shot my husband. My husband. And the bullet was an inch away from his heart," she said.
 
Grant and Fyfe were just arrested two months ago on charges of possessing a pistol by a person under 18 and marijuana possession.

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