An 18-year-old man was found shot in the leg at an apartment complex on Tuskegee Street in southeast Atlanta, and police say he was alert, conscious and breathing when officers arrived. The shooting remains under investigation, with no suspect, motive or weapon information released so far.
According to WSB-TV, Atlanta police officers responded to a shooting at 222 Tuskegee St. in southeast Atlanta. The outlet's own reporting is inconsistent about the timing of the incident, describing it in one instance as happening Thursday afternoon and elsewhere as Monday afternoon, October 19 — a discrepancy that has not been resolved. Officers who responded found the man suffering from what the station described as an apparent gunshot wound to the leg.
The Atlanta Police Department's own news page lists a person-shot incident at the same address, 222 Tuskegee Street SE, corroborating that officers were dispatched there. Beyond the location and the nature of the injury, few details have been made public. The report does not identify the apartment complex by name, nor does it specify whether the victim was transported to a hospital or describe the severity of the wound beyond the gunshot injury to the leg.
Investigation Still in Early Stages
Police have confirmed only that the investigation is ongoing, the same language used in the original report. No suspect description, arrest, or charges have been announced in connection with the shooting, and the outlet's coverage does not provide an investigation contact for anyone with information.
The shooting adds to a string of recent gunfire incidents in southeast Atlanta's apartment communities. Just days earlier, a 13-year-old boy was shot after bullets sprayed a southeast Atlanta apartment complex before 4 a.m., according to FOX 5 Atlanta. In that case, officers who responded also found the young victim alert, conscious and breathing before medics rushed him to a hospital, and investigators believed someone had targeted the home and fired from outside. The boy's sister told the station that he had also been shot outside the same apartment complex the previous September.
Citywide Trends Show Mixed Picture
The Tuskegee Street shooting comes as Atlanta's broader crime statistics tell a complicated story. CBS News reports that 2025 was the first year since before the COVID-19 pandemic that the city's homicide count stayed under 100, and non-fatal shootings have dropped 27 percent over a four-year span. At the same time, aggravated assault cases rose sharply to more than 3,000 in 2025, according to the same report.
The Atlanta Police Department, which had 1,840 officers and 200 recruits in training at the time of that report, also said it arrested 1,057 repeat offenders in 2025 — a figure representing a quarter of all the department's felony arrests that year. No further updates on the Tuskegee Street shooting have been released, and the investigation remains open.
