{"id":219099,"date":"2025-03-18T10:35:50","date_gmt":"2025-03-18T14:35:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/?p=219099"},"modified":"2025-03-18T10:35:50","modified_gmt":"2025-03-18T14:35:50","slug":"man-and-woman-shot-inside-car-in-southwest-atlanta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/?p=219099","title":{"rendered":"Man and Woman Shot Inside Car in Southwest Atlanta"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A Sunday afternoon shooting in southwest Atlanta has left one person dead and another injured as police search for answers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>What We Know:<\/strong> Atlanta police officers responded to the intersection of Whitehall Street SW and McDaniel Street SW around 12:57 p.m. on March 16 after receiving reports of a shooting. At the scene, they found two people suffering from gunshot wounds inside a white Nissan Altima. Both victims \u2013 a man and a woman \u2013 were rushed to the hospital by emergency medical services. The male victim later died from his injuries, while the female victim&#8217;s condition remains unknown.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>What We Don&#8217;t Know:<\/strong> Police have not released the identities of either victim. Investigators haven&#8217;t shared information about potential suspects, a possible motive, or whether the shooting was targeted or random. It&#8217;s also unclear if the victims were parked or driving when the shooting occurred, or if anyone witnessed the attack.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>In Context:<\/strong> This shooting adds to growing concerns about gun violence in <a class=\"wpil_keyword_link\" href=\"\/city\/Atlanta\"   title=\"Atlanta\" data-wpil-keyword-link=\"linked\"  data-wpil-monitor-id=\"1352\">Atlanta<\/a>. The intersection where the shooting took place is in a busy area of southwest Atlanta, near several businesses and residential neighborhoods. The area sits close to the Mechanicsville community and is not far from downtown Atlanta.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Take Action:<\/strong> Anyone with information about this shooting is urged to contact Atlanta Police Department&#8217;s Homicide Unit at 404-546-4235. Those wishing to remain anonymous can submit tips to Crime Stoppers Atlanta at 404-577-TIPS (8477) or online at www.StopCrimeATL.org. Crime Stoppers tipsters can remain anonymous and may be eligible for a reward for information leading to an arrest and indictment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n[mailerlite_form form_id=2]\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Sunday afternoon shooting in southwest Atlanta has left one person dead and another injured as police search for answers. What We Know: Atlanta police officers responded to the intersection of Whitehall Street SW and McDaniel Street SW around 12:57 p.m. on March 16 after receiving reports of a shooting. At the scene, they found [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":948,"featured_media":23338,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"newspack_featured_image_position":"","newspack_post_subtitle":"","newspack_article_summary_title":"Overview:","newspack_article_summary":"","newspack_hide_updated_date":false,"newspack_show_updated_date":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[8519],"class_list":["post-219099","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-crime","tag-shooting","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219099","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/948"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=219099"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219099\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23338"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=219099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=219099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=219099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}