Shots Fired in CNN Building

What the hell is Lawrence Phillips doing in the ATL?

 

Do Hannity and O'Reilly have alibis?

 

ATLANTA - A domestic dispute erupted in gunfire in CNN's headquarters complex Tuesday, killing one person and critically wounding another, authorities said.

A man and a woman were involved in an argument near the main entrance of the complex when the man pulled a gun and shot her, police officer James Polite said. He said the armed man was then shot by a CNN security guard.

One of the people was pronounced dead on arrival at a hospital, spokeswoman Denise Simpson said. It was not immediately clear which person died. Simpson said the other was in critical condition.

A man and a woman were seen being carried out of the building on stretchers. The man's face was covered in blood and his shirt was removed.

Police said the man and woman had a prior relationship.

CNN reported that the offices of its Internet operations, CNN.com, were immediately evacuated. Video footage also showed police pointing guns at a man lying on the ground inside the building.

An announcement over the building's public-address system said there had been gunfire "with potential casualties." Police cordoned off an area by the escalators near the main entrance, facing Centennial Olympic Park. The park is where a bomb killed a woman during the 1996
Summer Olympics and injured more than 100 people.

"I heard four or five shots. I really didn't see it. I got out of there quick," said Jas Stanford, 27, who had been helping take down a temporary stage in the park used for college basketball's
Final Four festivities.

The CNN complex also includes the Omni Hotel, a large atrium and a food court. It is connected to Philips Arena, the home of the NBA's Atlanta Hawks.

In the food court, Trina Johnson, 44, of Atlanta, was with her daughter on a family outing.

"All of a sudden we heard a big boom. We thought it was an explosion," Johnson said. "We didn't see the gun. Everybody just started running."

 

Very nice. When does Jason Jackson go after ESPN?