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ATLANTA – Atlanta Police are investigating a shooting outside a club that was hosting a Black Pride event on Joseph E. Boone Boulevard.
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There is a heavy police presence at the Proctor Street intersection near the Marquette Club as police investigate.
Witnesses at the scene said at least three people were injured in the gunfire.
The Marquette Club said on its website that it was hosting a Black Pride block party on Sunday night. The event was scheduled from 10:30 p.m. Sunday to 6 a.m. Monday.
Rapper Lil Kim was scheduled to appear at the event.
Kristen Holloway from Channel 2 learned that a fight had broken out outside the club and a man had started shooting in the air and in the crowd.
We have a team on site working to gather more information, on Channel 2 Action News.
Witness Tarell Heard told Howard he heard at least eight gunshots as the party ended and people left.
Heard, who is not from Atlanta, said he would never return.
“It’s always something (in Atlanta),” he said. “If it’s not fighting, it’s gunfire.”
This is just the latest in a series of mass shootings in Georgia over Labor Day weekend. Seven people were injured in a shootout in downtown Athens early Sunday morning. The police are still looking for the gunman.
A shooting at a block party at Warner Robins on Saturday night killed a 15-year-old girl in the Atlanta subway and 4 other teenagers with gunshot wounds.
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