Atlanta police investigating 4 shootings, 1 stabbing that left at least 3 dead overnight

Atlanta police are investigating what led up to several unrelated violent incidents late Friday night and into early Saturday morning.

Just before midnight on Friday night, police say they were called to a home on Maple Walk Circle in a neighborhood off of Pryor Road.

Police said two 17-year-old boys got into a fight that led to one of them being shot and hospitalized. There is no word on his condition.

Investigators are still searching for the other teenager.

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Less than an hour later, Atlanta police were called to a small shopping center on Joseph E. Boone Blvd. where they found a 49-year-old man who had been shot . He died after being taken to Grady Memorial Hospital.

Another victim, a 51-year-old man, was found near the initial scene and was pronounced dead.

Channel 2′s Veronica Griffin was on the scene where police told her they are still working to figure out what led up to the double shooting . Neither man’s name has been released.

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