An investigation is underway after three people were injured in a shooting Sunday afternoon at the East Point MARTA station, authorities said.
MARTA police responded at about 1:30 p.m. to the shooting, which occurred in the bus loop area outside the station, according to spokesperson Sacoria Jackson.
Jackson said a man was shot, while another man and a woman were each grazed by a bullet. The three victims were taken to Grady Memorial Hospital with non-life-threatening injuries and have since been released, police confirmed Monday.
According to Jackson, a suspect approached one of the victims and got into an argument that led to the gunfire. Authorities have not released any additional details about the shooting or the suspect, who remains at large and has not been publicly identified.
“Investigation is still ongoing,” Jackson said Monday.
In May, two people survived after being shot on a MARTA Gold Line train near the East Point station, police said. One was shot in the chest and another was grazed by a stray bullet, officials said.
That suspect, Rico Williams, was arrested in southwest Atlanta in October during a joint operation conducted by the transit agency’s police officers and the FBI Atlanta Metro Major Offender Task Force.
In the aftermath of that shooting, police Chief Scott Kreher stressed that MARTA was safe.
“There are people out there that go toward gun violence versus mediating conflict, and we still, as a society, have to deal with that. That’s not a MARTA problem; that’s a nation problem,” Kreher said at the time.
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