Teen killed in triple shooting at northwest Atlanta apartment complex, police say

ATLANTA - Residents in a northwest Atlanta apartment complex are fearful after a triple shooting left a 17-year-old dead. The violence marked the fourth shooting in just three months.

Police responded to the Commons complex on the 3100 block of Middleton Road around 10 p.m. Wednesday.  At the scene, officers found the teenager and two other gunshot victims.  

Sadly the teen didn't survive.  Paramedics rushed the other two victims to Grady Memorial Hospital. Their condition hasn't been released.

Detectives say it's early in the investigation, but they think the incident started as a drug-related robbery that ended in gunfire. Police collected both ballistic and electronic evidence from the crime scene and are using surveillance video to piece together what happened.

Investigators say it's too early to know if the teenager killed lived in the complex. They have not yet released the identities of the victims or said how they may be connected to the incident that led up to the shooting.

This is at least the fourth shooting at the complex since Thanksgiving.

In late November a triple shooting left two men and a boy injured. One of those adults was located a few blocks away.

In mid-December, two people were shot. One of those victims was a mail carrier, delivering the mail to the complex. She was caught in the crossfire of a gunfight.

In early January a man was killed in the shooting at the complex. No information has been released about what led up to that crime.

Police investigate a shooting at a northwest Atlanta apartment complex on Jan. 26, 2022. (FOX 5)

"I am crying out for help on behalf of me and all the community," a woman who did not want to be identified says. 

In one of those shootings, a bullet struck a postal worker in broad daylight.

One resident says enough is enough. 

"We need help from wherever it is that we can get it. It is to the point you are scared to go to your mailbox, scared to go outside. You have children scared to come outside and play," they say.

The fear has turned to pain for mother Tonia Conley.

"I just buried my son the 15th of January," Conley says. 

Conley's son was shot in the same complex three weeks ago. 

Someone gunned down Timmie Thomas Jr. in his car. His mother talked about their last conversation.

"He said, ‘Mom, I love you. I'll be back.’ A couple of hours later, I received a call that his car was shot up," Conley says in disbelief.

One resident says she hopes Mayor Andre Dickens can find solutions.

"Besides God, maybe the mayor. He is a new mayor and although he has just come in, maybe at one point and time he can check the community out," the resident says with hope.

Anyone with information about the shooting, please contact the Atlanta Police Department.

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