Man shot dead, four women injured outside Cleveland Avenue apartments

ATLANTA - One man is dead and four other female victims are recovering from gunshot wounds after a shooting Saturday night at an apartment complex on Cleveland Avenue in southeast Atlanta.

While Atlanta Police are investigating, some residents who live in the Fairway Gardens apartment complex told FOX 5 the incident left them with concerns about safety.

"We did receive a call at about 10 p.m. this evening in reference to a person shot at the location," Lt. Ralph Woolfolk said.

According to police, officers arrived on the scene and found the female victims with gunshot wounds and a 22-year-old man dead.

"It was a lady she was crying and screaming ‘he gone’ and all this other stuff, so I was just like man," resident Marcus Holt recalled of the incident.  

Holt told FOX 5 he immediately hit the floor in the apartment he shares with his mother when he heard gunshots.

"I really got on the ground yesterday when I heard them because they were so close and I didn’t know where they were coming from," he said.

APD officials said the shooting started with some sort of dispute that escalated. Holt called it a senseless act of violence.

"It was really just a senseless act because they had kids out here and all of that…like…what I was saying in my head last night was I hope that them kids ain’t just lose their daddy," Hold told FOX 5.  

He said after an incident like this, he’s concerned about safety inside the complex.

"We don’t have no security. These gates are unlocked all the time so anybody can just come through here and stuff like that happens," Holt explained.

Though there isn’t any security, there are exterior cameras installed on all the buildings throughout.

Officials said in addition to handguns they recovered on the scene, they are using that surveillance video in their investigation.

There’s no word on a suspect, but police did say they have spoken to a number of witnesses who are cooperating in their investigation.