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2 teens dead in shooting
East Point police are investigating a triple shooting which claimed the lives of two teens
EAST POINT, Ga. - Two teenagers were killed and one other people was injured during a triple shooting at a footbridge over train tracks Tuesday afternoon in East Point, police said.
The shooting happened around 4:20 p.m. near a footbridge between Main Street and the Wagon and Buggy Works. East Point police said officers arrived to find a young man between 16 and 19 years-old at the bottom of the bridge, dead from apparent gunshot wounds.
A second victim was found collapsed under the bridge after having run across the tracks, police said. He was taken to an area hospital where he later died.
Police said a third victim later arrived at Grady Memorial Hospital, also with a gunshot wound.
Investigators learned the shooting was sparked by a confrontation between two large groups of people. Police are working to gather more information and see if any surveillance video in the area captured the incident or a possible suspect.
Police are asking anyone with further information to call the East Point Police Department at 404-761-2177.