Atlanta shooting: Police set up cordon as suspect still at large
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The woman killed in the mass shooting at an Atlanta medical centre has now been identified as a 38-year-old CDC worker.
Amy St. Pierre was killed on Wednesday when suspected gunman Deion Patterson opened fire at Midtown Atlanta’s Northside Hospital.
The shooting unfolded when Mr Patterson, who used to be in the US Coast Guard, was attending an appointment with his mother. He allegedly pulled out a handgun and opened fire in the waiting room, shooting five women.
St Pierre died while the four other victims – aged 25 to 71 – are fighting for their lives in hospital.
Mr Patterson, 24, fled the scene by carjacking a vehicle close to the hospital, police said.
A huge manhunt ensued before he was tracked down to Cobb County, just northwest of Atlanta, where he was arrested
A local resident told The Atlanta Journal-Constitution that the suspect was found hiding near a condo complex’s pool after dogs began barking at him.
Mr Patterson’s mother, Minyone Patterson, said her son had “some mental instability going on” from medication he received from the Veterans Affairs health system that he began taking on Friday.
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1683277200Northside Hospital doctor helped victims immediately after Atlanta mass shooting
A doctor working at Northside Hospital recalls hiding during the mass shooting in the facility’s waiting room before he emerged and began to assist with the wounded.
Scott Kleber, 62, who was just outside the waiting room during the shooting, said he waited for a few minutes after the shooting before poking his head out to survey the damage. He recalled the grisly scene to the Washington Post.
“We hunkered down for a few minutes, and I cracked open my door. I hear a cry for help from the waiting room. You can’t let someone who needs help not get help,” Dr Kleber said. “I open the door carefully and gently and I did not see a shooter, but I saw three bodies — three injured. One [had] a gunshot wound to the head. That was near the front desk. She was motionless, and it was pretty clear she succumbed to her gunshot wound. There was a lot of blood from her head.”
He recalled finding a staff member who worked the front desk hiding in a back room with a bullet wound to her abdomen.
“She is breathing and conscious with a bullet wound from her front abdomen through her back, a through-and-through gunshot wound,” he said. “And there is another employee, who appears to have a graze wound, offering comfort to her co-worker.”
Dr Kleber said he reassured the injured woman.
“I listened to her lungs. I told her, ‘EMS is coming. Hold tight. People are going to take care of you.’”
Despite his actions, he insisted that he “is not a hero.”
Graig Graziosi5 May 2023 10:00
1683273600Atlanta judge denies Atlanta mass shooting suspect Deion Patterson bail
Deion Patterson, the suspect in the mass shooting that left one woman dead and four others wounded in Midtown Atlanta on Wednesday, has been denied bail.
Fulton County Magistrate Judge Holly Hughes made the decision on Thursday after Mr Patterson waived his right to be present for her ruling.
She ordered he remain in custody on one murder charge and four counts of aggravated assault.
Graig Graziosi5 May 2023 09:00
1683270000Atlanta hospital mass shooting victim identified as CDC worker
The woman who was killed during a mass shooting in Atlanta on Wednesday was a worker at the US Centres for Disease Control and Prevention, according to the agency.
Amy St Pierre, 38, was killed after Deion Patterson, 24, allegedly open fired in the waiting room of the Northside Hospital in Midtown Atlanta.
He allegedly shot Ms St Pierre and wounded four other women. Ms St Pierre died at the scene, according to police.
The other women who were wounded are Lisa Glynn, Georgette Whitlow, Jazzmin Daniel, and Alesha Hollinger, according to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, citing Mr Patterson’s charging papers. They are reportedly still in critical condition, according to Grady Health Chief Medical Officer Dr Robert Jansen.
Graig Graziosi5 May 2023 08:00
1683266400Amy St Pierre, woman killed in Atlanta mass shooting, remembered by her friend
Graig Graziosi5 May 2023 07:00
1683262800Surviving victims of Atlanta shooting identified
The names of the four women injured during a mass shooting Midtown Atlanta on Wednesday have been released, according to a local report.
Deion Patterson allegedly shot five women after he became irritated in the Northside Hospital waiting room. The shooting sent four victims to the hospital left one woman, Amy St. Pierre, dead.
The other women injured have reportedly been identified as Lisa Glynn, Georgette Whitlow, Jazzmin Daniel, and Alesha Hollinger, according to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, citing Mr Patterson’s charging papers.
Ms Glynn was reportedly shot in the abdomen, Ms Whitlow in the arm, Ms Hollinger in the face, and Ms Daniel was hit multiple times in her abdomen.
Graig Graziosi5 May 2023 06:00
1683259191‘Its the guns’: Atlanta Mayor releases statement calling for ‘national action’ on mental health and gun access
Atlanta Mayor Andre Dickens released a statement on Thursday afternoon addressing the shooting in Midtown on Wednesday.
Amid assurances that the suspect, Deion Patterson, will face justice and that city funds were being used to bolster law enforcement and crime prevention efforts, the mayor also called for national action on mental health and gun access.
“Violent crime in Atlanta is significantly down over this time last year. But we need to do more. We need national action to change the way we treat mental health. And we need action that keeps guns out of the hands of people who should not have them.
We cannot accept mass shootings as normal in our country. We know it does not have to be this way. Other nations have challenges with mental health, but they don’t have this level of gun violence that we do in America.
While we respect the rights conveyed by the 2nd Amendment, we also need more actions to protect the rights of our citizens to go about their lives — to go to a doctor’s office, a supermarket, a gas station, their school — without the threat of being gunned down.”
Graig Graziosi5 May 2023 04:59
1683255651Everything we know about the Atlanta mass shooting
One person was killed and multiple others were injured in a mass shooting on Wednesday in Midtown Atlanta.
The Atlanta Police Department announced on Wednesday evening a suspect in the shooting had been apprehended.
Here’s everything we know about the shooting in Atlanta:
Graig Graziosi5 May 2023 04:00
1683252051Gun control activists speak out after Atlanta shooting
Gun control group Giffords tweeted “enough” as yet another mass shooting took place in the US on Wednesday.
“This is what America looks like. Police are responding to an active shooting at Northside Hospital Medical in Midtown Atlanta, which killed one person and injured at least four more. We experience gun violence over and over again. ENOUGH,” the organisation tweeted.
Fred Guttenberg, whose daughter Jaime was killed in the Parkland massacre, tweeted: “It doesn’t need to be this way.”
Graig Graziosi5 May 2023 03:00
1683248451Raphael Warnock urges Congress to act on gun violence after Atlanta shooting: ‘None of us are safe’
While law enforcement agencies joined a manhunt for a gunman who shot five people inside a midtown Atlanta hospital, Georgia Senator Raphael Warnock was speaking on the floor of the US Senate.
His two children, meanwhile, were locked down in their Atlanta-area schools.
“They’re there, I’m here, hoping and praying they’re safe,” he said in remarks from the Senate on 3 May. “But the truth is none of us are safe … Thoughts and prayers aren’t enough.”
Graig Graziosi5 May 2023 02:00
1683244851ICYMI: Deion Patterson was angry at ‘messed up’ meds before killing one woman and injuring four others, says mother
Atlanta mass shooting suspect Deion Patterson was angry at his “messed up” medication before he allegedly killed one woman and injured four others at a hospital in the city.
The suspect, who used to serve in the US Coast Guard, remains on the loose and a massive manhunt is underway after police warned that the 24-year-old is “considered armed and dangerous.” “DO NOT approach him,” tweeted Atlanta Police Department as they identified him.
The suspect, who has a military background, had originally attended a medical appointment at the building on Wednesday at which he was accompanied by his mother, reported CNN.
“The damn VA gave him some messed up medication. And all he wanted was an Ativan,” his mother, Minyone Patterson, told The Daily Beast before hanging up.
Graeme Massie has the details.
Graig Graziosi5 May 2023 01:00
