3-year-old, teen among 5 shot in NW Atlanta

3 adults also wounded, while 4 killed in other gun violence in city.

An 18-year-old with a gun opened fire and shot five people at a home in northwest Atlanta on Sunday morning before killing himself, authorities said.

Atlanta police responded just after 10 a.m. to a residence in the 3500 block of Adkins Road in the Fairburn Heights neighborhood near the Fulton County Airport. When officers arrived, they found three adults and two children, ages 3 and 15, suffering from gunshot wounds, Atlanta police Deputy Chief Charles Hampton told reporters from the scene. The victims were taken to area hospitals and are said to be stable.

“There was some type of ongoing dispute domestic in nature inside the home that escalated to gunfire,” Hampton said. “The suspect shot all five victims then shot himself.”

Hampton said he knew the suspect’s relationship with the victims, but wasn’t sharing that information because their family wasn’t notified yet. He said two other children were also inside the home. They were uninjured but taken to a hospital.

The incident occurred on a holiday weekend that had already seen five people killed by gun violence.

Earlier on Sunday, 25-year-old Harrison Olvey, a valet, was fatally shot in Buckhead after he confronted someone who was breaking into a vehicle. Detectives said they were looking for a person of interest who is believed to be armed and dangerous.

On Saturday, four other people were shot and killed across the city within a 12-hour span.

At about 1:05 a.m., Atlanta police found 31-year-old Freddie Lowe shot to death near the Thomasville Recreation Center in southeast Atlanta. Leverett Hancock, 40, was booked into the Fulton County Jail on charges of murder and possession of a firearm during the commission of a felony.

Just two hours later, officers were called to the troubled Fairburn Gordon apartments in northwest Atlanta and found a man fatally shot. He was identified as 44-year-old Theon Elliot.

Later on Saturday, two separate shootings a few miles apart in northwest Atlanta left a man and a woman dead, authorities said. The man was found shot at Magnolia Park, which like Fairburn Gordon was identified in the AJC’S “Dangerous Dwellings” investigation.

About four miles away, police responded around noon to a home in the 900 block of Margaret Place near Westside Park. Officers found a woman who did not appear to be breathing, police said. She was taken to a hospital, where she was pronounced dead.

Atlanta Police Chief Darin Schierbaum said the Adkins Road shooting, and much of the violence this weekend, was domestic-related. Investigations are ongoing into the gunfire.

“What we see here today has commonality of what we saw in the city this weekend,” Schierbaum said. “Intimate setting among friends and family where a gun is present and anger occurs.”

“This department will continue to hold drug dealers accountable, gang members accountable, individuals that are running guns in our city,” he said. “But we cannot be present in every living room and in every setting of a home where we need others to be able to intervene to stop violence from occurring.”