Despite Atlanta’s weekend of a dozen shootings that left two people dead and more than two dozen injured, officials say the city’s homicide rate is moving in the right direction.
Driving the news: Chief Darin Schierbaum and Mayor Andre Dickens addressed the weekend shootings during a news conference Monday at Atlanta Police Department’s public safety headquarters.
- “We haven’t had a weekend like this in a long time, maybe two years or more,” Dickens said, adding the summer months are often the most challenging when it comes to gun violence in Atlanta communities.
The latest: Schierbaum said detectives are investigating 12 shootings that injured 29 people since Friday.
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- The most recent shooting happened early Monday in the 300 block of Edgewood Avenue SE in the Sweet Auburn neighborhood.
- Police were dispatched around 1:30am to the scene and found a man shot to death.
- 10 other…