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Atlanta mass shooting suspect arrested after hours long manhunt

Anderson Cooper 360

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4.13.7K Ratings

🗓️ 4 May 2023

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

Officials say at least one person is dead and four others were injured after a gunman became enraged during a visit to an Atlanta medical facility and opened fire. The suspect, 24-year-old Deoin Patterson, was taken into custody in a nearby county after a hours long manhunt. Former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe tells Anderson Cooper how intense a search like this one can be for law enforcement.

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0:00.0

Good evening. We begin with breaking news tonight for the last eight hours.

0:04.6

Authorities in around Atlanta have been looking for this man, Dion Patterson,

0:08.7

a suspect in a mass shooting at a local medical facility that killed one woman

0:12.3

and wounded four others. Tonight he is in custody. We've just learned

0:16.0

this. We want to go straight to see nice Gary Tuckman. What have you learned, Gary?

0:21.6

Anderson just about 10 minutes ago, a police office here in Cap County,

0:25.2

Georgia said the alleged gunman, Dion Patterson, is under arrest.

0:29.3

And this gated community behind me here in Smirna, Georgia, which is a suburb of about 11 miles

0:34.4

northwest of where these shootings happen today. This is Waterford Place.

0:39.3

There are police cars behind the gates as we speak. We know that because we were following them

0:44.4

as we arrived. We were about five minutes down the road and we saw police cars zooming by us. We

0:49.6

then followed them. We came here. A police officer was sitting right outside here. I asked him what's

0:54.7

going on inside. He told me we have apprehended the suspect and he has alive. There was no shootout.

1:00.8

It appears that he surrendered peacefully. About an hour ago, there were about 100 police officers

1:06.3

in SWAT vehicles. About five minutes in this direction, next to truest park where the Atlanta

1:11.2

Braves play baseball. The Braves are playing on the road tonight. It was very quiet in an area.

1:15.6

The area is called the battery. There are shops, there are restaurants, there are theaters,

1:19.2

next to the baseball stadium. It was full of SWAT vehicles and police officers looking for the

1:23.6

suspect earlier in the day. The car that is believed that this man hijacked was found in a parking lot

1:29.8

in the battery area. Police then asked employees in the office where the car was parked. They

1:34.9

saw the man. They said they did not see the man. A woman I talked to who worked in the office

1:39.3

tells us the officer told her we have video from a camera nearby that shows him leaving the car

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