Just days later, Atlanta police responded to the Ellington Midtown apartment complex along 17th Street and found a car with multiple bullet holes blocking the entrance to the parking garage. The teen survived the shooting.Īn off-duty Georgia State University officer shot a teen who was firing into a crowd at Atlantic Station in late December, police said. After seeing a 16-year-old “actively firing shots into a crowd,” the officer shot the suspect, GSU interim police Chief Anthony Coleman said at the time. “It was at least 20 or 30 shots.”Ī Georgia State University officer working an extra job and a security guard attempted to intervene as the gunshots rang out. “I heard gunshots and like, I was driving by and I saw like a bunch of people running,” another caller said. Things escalated and frantic callers began alerting emergency dispatch of a shooting in the area, scattering the crowds. “We have over 100 juveniles on the property fighting each other and starting fights all over the place,” a caller who identified herself as a security employee told dispatch. Callers reported fights breaking out among the crowd, which eventually escalated to gun violence. In 911 calls released from that night, witnesses described a chaotic scene.
among a group of more than 100 teenagers on 17th Street, the AJC previously reported. The decision also comes, in part, after gunfire erupted Dec. Explore Witnesses reported massive crowd of teens before gunfire at Atlantic Station
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This article originally appeared in our January 2014 issue under the headline “Monumental Aspirations.This decision comes as part of management’s continued effort to update and invest in the shopping plaza’s security program, which includes an around-the-clock team and more than 500 surveillance cameras throughout the property, the spokesperson added. “We keep saying we’re a young city,” Cook says, “but we’re not.” Created in collaboration with Georgia Tech’s interactive media department, the display uses gaming sensors to let visitors toggle between more than 5,000 “then and now” images.Ĭook asserts the museum is intended to provide an aspirational message. The final exhibit is a panoramic layout of Atlanta. Chapters of state history-the founding of Savannah, the Civil War, and the civil rights movement, for instance-are depicted on tapestries.
The museum (open weekdays adult admission $10) exhibits sixteenth-century artifacts from Spanish colonies in South Georgia and Florida, as well as treasures such as the original contents of a parlor in historic Rhodes Hall. The arch is the pet project of Rodney Mims Cook Jr., whose local pedigree extends back to the 1830s-before Atlanta’s founding as a railway terminus. But the monumental structure houses a 12,000-square-foot museum that pays tribute to Georgia history and Atlanta’s founding families. Many Atlantans assume the Roman-inspired arch, erected in 2008, is just another decorative element of Atlantic Station, the mini-city built on the site of an old steel mill. Nestled amid apartment complexes on Seventeenth Street, the seven-story, 100-foot Millennium Gate is hard to miss but easy to whiz by.
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