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sl8

(17,148 posts)
Tue May 22, 2018, 06:32 PM May 2018

6-year-old, 12-year-old with gun accused of chasing down group on Beltline

From https://www.wsbtv.com/news/local/12-year-old-6-year-old-with-gun-accused-of-chasing-down-group-on-beltline/753905681

6-year-old, 12-year-old with gun accused of chasing down group on Beltline

By: Matt Johnson
Updated: May 21, 2018 - 7:29 PM

ATLANTA - Police said a group of people in their 30s were chased down a portion of the Beltline by a 6-year-old and 12-year-old armed with a gun and rocks.

Channel 2’s Matt Johnson learned the adults were walking in Adair Park on the westside trail Sunday afternoon when Atlanta police said two children walked up to them and pointed a gun at them and started throwing rocks at them.

Two of the adults were hit by the “baseball-sized rocks.”

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6-year-old, 12-year-old with gun accused of chasing down group on Beltline (Original Post) sl8 May 2018 OP
If only the thirtysomethings had been armed! FiveGoodMen May 2018 #1
It takes a good adult with a gun to stop a bad preteen with a gun! regnaD kciN May 2018 #2
Not very many details in this story. Ferrets are Cool May 2018 #3

FiveGoodMen

(20,018 posts)
1. If only the thirtysomethings had been armed!
Tue May 22, 2018, 06:37 PM
May 2018

Then they could have shot the kids.

That's the solution we all want, right?

</sarcasm>

Ferrets are Cool

(23,058 posts)
3. Not very many details in this story.
Tue May 22, 2018, 07:21 PM
May 2018

I would like to know more? At least the reporter should have asked if shots were fired.

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