Atlanta mass shooting – latest: Midtown attack victim named as suspect charged with murder after manhunt
Amy St Pierre was killed when suspected gunman Deion Patterson opened fire at Midtown Atlanta’s Northside Hospital
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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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Suspect is a former member of the Coast Guard
The suspect, Deion Patterson, 24, is a former member of the Coast Guard.
The agency said in a statement on Wednesday that he “entered the Coast Guard in July 2018 and last served as an Electrician’s Mate Second Class. He was discharged from active duty in January 2023.”.
“Our deepest sympathies are with the victims and their families,” they added, according to CNN.
Police chief gives ages of victims
Atlanta Police Department Chief Darin Schierbaum told reporters that all five women had been shot in a waiting room on the 11th floor of the building.
Chief Schierbaum said that the woman who died was 39, while the other four wounded women are aged 25, 39, 56 and 71.
Suspect may be near home of Atlanta Braves
Deion Patterson may be near Truist Park and The Battery in Cobb County after the car he is suspected of being in showed up on a licence plate reader in the area, sources told CNN.
Truist Park is where the Atlanta Braves play and is around 11 miles from the scene of the shooting earlier in the day.
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“None of us is safe, no matter where we are. This happened in a medical facility where people are trying to find healing,” said the US Senator for Georgia.
.@SenatorWarnock on shooting in Atlanta, GA. "None of us is safe, no matter where we are. This happened in a medical facility where people are trying to find healing." pic.twitter.com/C3PI2OuWsC
— CSPAN (@cspan) May 3, 2023
Suspect’s vehicle found in Cobb County
A vehicle allegedly stolen by Deion Patterson was located inside a parking garage along Heritage Court near The Battery Atlanta.
“We did get information that the shooter may have come to Cobb County, so we began to actually check our flock cameras,” said Cobb police spokesman Sgt Wayne Delk. “We went back and did discover that the vehicle had entered Cobb County.”
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The Georgia senator’s children were locked down in their schools during the manhunt.
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Shooting suspect was visiting hospital with his mother
A man accused of fatally shooting at least one person and injuring at least four more was visiting a medical facility in Midtown Atlanta with his mother, CNN reports.
The mother of suspected gunman Deion Patterson is reportedly cooperating with police.
Suspect arrested in Atlanta shooting
Deion Patterson, the suspect in a shooting at a hospital in Atlanta, Georgia which left one woman dead and four others wounded, has been taken into custody, police have said.
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Shooting suspect seen being arrested
A news helicopter captured footage of Atlanta-area police arresting a suspect wanted for shooting at least five people, one fatally, at a Midtown hospital on Wednesday.
An 11Alive news crew captured live images of a man, potentially Deion Patterson, being apprehended at a condominium complex in Cobb County.
The station also reports that Mr Patterson was seen wandering the complex with an exposed weapon, and that he had a previous marijuana posession on his record.