A taking pictures close to a well-liked buying district in downtown Atlanta on Saturday killed not less than one particular person and left not less than 5 others injured.

The taking pictures occurred steps from town’s Atlantic Station buying district round 8 p.m., shortly after off-duty Atlanta law enforcement officials and Atlantic Station personnel escorted a “group of juveniles” off Atlantic Station property, Atlanta Police Homicide Commander Lieutenant Germaine Dearlove mentioned in a press conference.

The group moved to close by seventeenth avenue, the place a dispute broke out and escalated to gunfire, Dearlove mentioned. Police consider the six victims vary in age between 15 and 21 years outdated.

Dearlove mentioned the group had been faraway from Atlantic Station for “unruly behavior and also curfew violations.” In the aftermath of a spate of shootings late final 12 months, Atlantic Station mentioned in January that it was tightening its curfew for anybody beneath beneath the age of 18 to three p.m. Previously, the curfew had been set at 6 p.m.

Details of what led as much as the taking pictures stay unclear, in line with investigators, however Dearlove mentioned it’s attainable the dispute concerned a number of shooters between two teams.

“Currently, we’re in the preliminary stage,” Dearlove mentioned. “We’re in a fact-finding mission to see what exactly occurred.”

He added, “The Atlanta police department, the city of Atlanta, we do our very best to identify suspects involved in violent crimes and we do our job and we’re good at our job. We’re going to do what we have to do to keep the city safe.”

The Atlanta taking pictures was one of at least six mass shootings to happen within the U.S. over the Thanksgiving vacation weekend, in line with the Gun Violence Archive. The group defines a mass taking pictures as an incident the place 4 or extra persons are shot or killed, excluding the shooter. In all, the U.S. has seen not less than 615 mass shootings in 2022.

Since the beginning of November, the nation has seen not less than 40 mass shootings, together with the Colorado Springs shooting at a LGBTQ nightclub which killed 5 individuals and injured not less than 25 others.