Woman arrested in Midtown triple shooting
A woman has been arrested after three people were shot in midtown Atlanta on Monday, city police have said.
The Atlanta Police Department said it had detained a suspect in the shootings at the city’s international airport after evacuating the scene of the crime.
Media reports identified that suspect as Raïssa Kengne, an information security manager who appears to have named two of the victims in a string of social media posts and a lawsuit alleging a conspiracy against her.
Officials named the two people who died as Wesley Freeman, 41, and Michael Shinners, 60. Mr Freeman was a longtime employee at Ms Kengne’s former accounting firm, while Mr Shinners was described in her lawsuit as the manager of her apartment complex.
Officers are still investigating why the shooting happened, but said they believed the victims had been targeted specifically.
The shooting began just before 2pm in midtown, leaving two people dead and one injured.
Mother describes how her daughter was shot at
The mother of a woman who was caught up in the shooting has spoken about her experience.
Tamesha Steed, whose daughter was working at the 1280 West apartment complex when the shooting began, told 11 Alive that her daughter was “pretty shook up”.
“My daughter was shot at, but she’s okay,” said Ms Steed. “She is actually an employee here…. she did say the shooter had some medical conditions, so I don’t know if this was something mental.”
She added: “What they’re saying is that the shooter was targeting employees of the building…. when I called to talk to my daughter, she was screaming through the phone, she was so shook.”
She described the complex as “an upscale condo building”, where her daughter had worked for about 6-8 months.
Io Dodds23 August 2022 10:58
ICYMI: Suspect had filed lawsuit against two victims
Two of the Atlanta shooting victims were named in a lawsuit apparently filed by suspect Raïssa Kengne this May.
In a 407-page complaint spotted by Kevin D Reyes, an open source intelligence analyst at the Institute for Strategic Dialogue, and reviewed by The Independent, Raissa Djuissi Kengne accuses her former company, former colleagues, former clients, her building manager, one of her neighbours, and her own lawyers of engaging in a conspiracy against her.
“This case concerns the retaliation, persecution, harassment, intimidation, threats, burglary, computer hacking, phone spoofng, and other attacks the Plaintiff was subjected to upon reporting to the relevant authorities a violation of [various finance laws],” the complaint reads.
In the version seen by The Independent, only Ms Kengne’s neighbour Justin Mungal had yet responded in detail to the lawsuit, calling her complaint a “shotgun pleading” and denying her claims.
Io Dodds23 August 2022 09:44
Atlanta shooting: All we know about suspect Raïssa Kengne and three victims
The Atlanta police department did not name the suspect in the Midtown shooting incident on Monday and only said she was female. The department also released blurry CCTV photos of her.
However, according to CBS 46, an email sent out to employees of Atlanta’s metro rail system, MARTA, named the suspect as Raissa Kengne.
The photos released by the police force, and another posted on Twitter by radio host Brian Moote, showed a Black woman wearing glasses and a black and white striped shirt surrounded by law enforcement officers.
A source within the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) confirmed that name to WSB Channel 2, saying Ms Kengne had been arrested by…