Comment Two people were fatally shot and one was wounded when a woman opened fire in Atlanta’s Midtown area Monday afternoon, prompting a search that led to her arrest at an airport, police said. At about 1:45 a.m. Monday, police responded to a call about shots fired on a busy Midtown block, where they found two people who had been shot, Atlanta police said. About 15 minutes later, while authorities were investigating the scene, they received a call about another person shot at the Colony Square mixed-use campus, a block away. Two of the three had died by Monday night, police said. Authorities said the same person likely opened fire at the two locations before heading to Atlanta’s Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport, where officers used security footage and their “camera network” to track down the suspect at the airport, the interim chief said. of Police Darin Schierbaum. Police arrested her “without incident” at about 4pm, in an area where she would not have had to go through a security checkpoint. They found a handgun they suspect he used. Mayor Andre Dickens said passengers were never in danger. At a news conference Monday afternoon, Schierbaum declined to identify the victims. He did not name the suspect. “I feel sorry for my neighbors,” said Schierbaum, who lives in the area. The victims were likely known to the shooter, he said, before saying authorities were investigating a possible motive for the shooting. At least six law enforcement agencies were involved in the investigation, and Schierbaum thanked them for their help. Video posted online shortly after the shooting apparently shows police going to the Colony Square building, which houses offices, restaurants and shops. A video showed officers asking how to get to the fourth floor. In one video, a person says they are “on lockdown” at the nearby Steakhouse STK as an officer begins blocking traffic. People were not allowed to leave or enter the Midtown High School, about a mile away from Colony Square, Monday afternoon. “Additional Atlanta Public Schools police officers were dispatched to Midtown to assist with the dismissal process, which proceeded as normal,” Atlanta Public Schools spokesman Seth Coleman said in an email.
