Atlanta
police are investigating a shooting of a man late Wednesday morning at the
Darlington Apartments, 2025 Peachtree Road N.E. in Buckhead.
"We
found an individual who had a grazing gunshot wound to his thigh," Atlanta
Police Zone 2 Commander Maj. Van Hobbs said. "He advised us that he had
come to the location to sell a firearm, and something happened during the
transaction."
The
victim was alert, conscious and breathing, police said, and was taken to Grady
Hospital.
Investigators
searched the building, but were not able to find the gun that was being sold,
Hobbs said.
Police
questioned a man on the scene who fit the victim's description of a person he
was meeting, and the man was arrested for outstanding warrants, Hobbs said. It
is unclear what charges he faces, or whether he will be charged in connection with
the shooting.
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