Police arrest suspect in fatal mass shooting at Atlanta medical center

A man who Atlanta Police describe as a shooting suspect stands inside a hospital, in a still image from surveillance video in Atlanta, Georgia, U.S. May 3, 2023. Atlanta Police Department/Handout via REUTERS

ATLANTA (Reuters) -Police have arrested a former U.S. Coast Guardsman suspected of killing one person and wounding four, all of them women, in a shooting on Wednesday at a medical building in Atlanta, then carjacking a vehicle to flee the scene, authorities said.

The suspected gunman, identified as Deion Patterson, 24, was taken into custody without incident after an undercover officer spotted him north of the city in suburban Cobb County several hours after the 12:30 p.m. shooting at the Northside Medical facility, police said.