Lyft passenger shot under I-85 overpass in SW Atlanta

Search for gunman who shot Lyft passenger

Police are searching for the gunman who shot a Lyft driver in southwest Atlanta.

ATLANTA - Atlanta police are investigating after a Lyft passenger was shot under an Interstate 85 overpass in southwest Atlanta.

Officers were called out to Cleveland Avenue, just under I-85 for a reported shooting. Atlanta police spoke with the Lyft driver who said he picked up two men and a woman. He told police the man in the back shot the man sitting in the front passenger seat. The man and the woman in the back then ran across the highway

A passerby stopped and took the man to Grady Memorial Hospital. He is listed in critical condition as of Thursday evening.