Authorities said a second man has been arrested in a shooting that wounded four people at a block party outside an Atlanta college library.
News outlets report 25-year-old Ahmad Coleman was arrested on Oct. 10 by U.S. marshals in Mississippi and now awaits extradition.
Atlanta police spokesman Carlos Campos says Coleman is charged with offenses including criminal attempt to commit murder and aggravated assault in the shooting near the Atlanta University Center library.
Authorities believe Coleman exchange gunfire with 21-year-old Isaiah Williams, who was arrested in September after he turned himself in.
Williams was charged with aggravated assault, aggravated battery, possession of a firearm, and attempted murder.
'It Could Have Been Any of Us'
Fear was among the students of Clark Atlanta University on Aug. 20, worried about their safety after gunshots were fired into a crowd of 200 people outside the school’s library at a block party shortly after 10:30 p.m.“It could have been any of us,” Zaire Hammond, a senior from Sacramento, California told authorities. “Stuff like this shouldn’t happen on a school campus.”
The block party was celebrating the end of new student orientation, and Clark Atlanta student Anais LaFontaine of New York City said that she’s concerned about the first-year students.
“I don’t want them to be scared to come back,” she said.
Other students say they want security strengthened on the campus near downtown Atlanta that’s easily accessible to the public.
“Anybody and everybody can walk through here,” said Jada Phillips, a student from Virginia.
The gunshots began after an argument broke out between two parties and someone opened fire, investigators said.
“It appears there were two separate groups that were targeting each other, and these people were just caught in the crossfire,” Atlanta police Capt. William Ricker told reporters.
Clark Atlanta’s Office of Religious Life held a prayer vigil on the evening of Aug. 22.
“Evil will not have its way on our campus,” it said on social media.