An 18-year-old man and a child were shot on Friday night, November 6, at the Ashley Cascade apartment complex in southwest Atlanta, in gunfire that Atlanta police say involved multiple shooters — the third time in less than three years that a child has been shot at this same address, 1371 Kimberly Way SW. Officers responded at about 8:45 p.m. to a report of a person shot and found the 18-year-old and the child with gunshot wounds; both were alert, conscious and breathing when emergency crews took them to a hospital, police said. Police have not released the child's age or either victim's name.
Source: Atlanta News First (WGCL) / Atlanta Police Dept.
Officers also found a third person at the scene, a male with lacerations connected to the incident, whose age was not released. Investigators determined that multiple people had been firing shots in the area and recovered several shell casings, which are being used to reconstruct the sequence of events. Police had announced no arrests as of Saturday, released no suspect descriptions, and had not said how many people they believe fired weapons, what the motive may have been, or whether the wounded man and child were involved in the exchange of gunfire or were struck while nearby.
Source: Atlanta Police Dept. preliminary information
What police have — and have not — said
The public record so far is deliberately thin, and what is missing matters. Police have not released the extent of the two shooting victims' injuries or any updated condition after they reached the hospital. They have not said whether the gunfire happened inside the complex's grounds, in a parking area or on the street, and they have not identified any vehicle connected to the shooting. The investigation remained active on Saturday, with no additional information released about possible suspects.
Atlanta police have not released the wounded child's name or age, and Awaaz Punjab does not identify minor victims: this report carries only what police made public — that a child was shot at the complex on Friday night and was conscious when taken to hospital. The same rule applied to the two earlier child shootings at this address described below.
The same address, twice before
On April 2, 2026, at about 1:46 a.m., officers responded to a person-shot call at the same address — 1371 Kimberly Way SW — and found a 7-year-old boy with multiple gunshot wounds to his right arm, the Atlanta Police Department said in its published preliminary report. EMS took the child to hospital, where he was last reported in stable condition. Police said the April shooting was a drive-by: officers established a crime scene, collected shell casings, and found that a total of three apartments had been damaged by gunfire.
Source: Atlanta Police Dept. release, Apr. 2, 2026
Two years earlier, on February 19, 2024, at about 5:39 p.m., Zone 4 officers responded to the same address and found a 3-year-old who had been shot while outside; the child was alert, conscious and breathing and was taken to hospital by ambulance, and investigators with the department's Aggravated Assault Unit took the case, according to the department's release at the time. Reporting on that 2024 shooting, WSB-TV found it was one of six shootings at the complex in four years — including a fatal triple shooting in July 2020 and further fatal shootings in 2021 and May 2022.
Source: WSB-TV Channel 2, Feb. 2024
A pattern residents have raised before
Friday night's shooting therefore does not read, on the police record, as an isolated incident at an anonymous address. It is the third child wounded by gunfire at one southwest Atlanta complex in 33 months, on top of the fatal shootings WSB-TV catalogued there earlier in the decade. When the 7-year-old was hit in April, neighbours told WSB-TV that gunfire around the complex was something they heard regularly — 'I hear it all the time' was the phrase its reporting carried — and that bullets in the April drive-by had passed through apartment windows and walls, striking the sleeping child inside his own home.
Ashley Cascade sits on Kimberly Way SW in Atlanta's Zone 4, the police zone covering much of the city's southwest side, in the Cascade corridor west of downtown. For the families who live there — many of them renters in a large multi-building complex — the practical questions after Friday night are the same ones raised in 2024 and again in April: whether anyone will be arrested, whether patrols around the complex will change, and whether the children who live at 1371 Kimberly Way can be outside, or asleep, without being in the line of fire. Police have not announced any change in patrol or any arrests.
What happens next
The investigation is active. The evidence police hold publicly consists of the shell casings recovered at the scene and whatever accounts witnesses give; in the 2024 case at this address, the Aggravated Assault Unit led the investigation. No court process can begin until a suspect is identified and arrested, and police have released no description to watch for. Awaaz Punjab will update this story when Atlanta police announce an arrest, release suspect information, or update the condition of the 18-year-old and the child.