911 call is released in shooting outside Buckhead eatery

Police communications seem to indicate attempted vehicle break-in.

Atlanta police are investigating after a man was shot in the arm Sunday evening outside a luxury restaurant in Buckhead.

Atlanta officers were called to Kyma on Piedmont Road near Buckhead Village around 8 p.m. and found a man suffering from a gunshot wound. He was stable when taken to the hospital. No suspects have been identified.

Authorities have released few details about the shooting, but a 911 call and police radio communication were released Wednesday morning. The 911 caller told dispatchers that two men were seen driving away from the scene after the shooting. The caller said the victim was an employee of the restaurant.

Over the police radio, an officer advised that a friend who works at Kyma called him on his personal phone to share information about the shoot

ing. The officer said he was told someone was trying to break into a vehicle and an employee was shot.

The Atlanta Journal-constitution has reached out to Buckhead Life Restaurant Group for a statement.

Sunday’s shooting comes just two days after a fatal shooting at a Buckhead shopping center.

Dontavious Cobb, 19, was shot to death and Coby Senior, 17, was injured after the two are said to have been breaking into a vehicle in front of the Publix in the Peachtree Battle Shopping Center, police said. When the owner of the SUV returned, police said a confrontation escalated into gunfire.

Senior is believed to have fired his own gun at the SUV’S owner as he fled. In addition to facing a felony murder charge in connection with Cobb’s death, Senior is being charged with entering an auto, possession of a firearm during the commission of a felony and possession of a firearm by a person under 18, police said.

The rise in crime and concerns for safety have become the leading factors behind the Buckhead cityhood movement.

“The city of Atlanta simply cannot keep the entire city safe. We believe it is in the best interest of the entirety of metro Atlanta to have a police force in Buckhead City that can adequately deal with crime and take the pressure off of the Atlanta Police Department by reducing the areas they need to patrol,” Buckhead Exploratory Committee President Sam Lenaeus said.

Critics, including Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms, argue that a new city is divisive and won’t necessarily reduce crime. They also worry that Atlanta would lose much of its tax revenue, leaving the city in a weaker financial state.

“Buckhead has and always will be an important and valued part of Atlanta,” a spokesman for Bottoms has said.