Kroger Shooting: Child in Stable Condition, No Arrests Yet

A shooting outside a Stone Mountain Kroger store on Wednesday afternoon left a child with a bullet in his abdomen, according to police. He was transported to Egleston Hospital where he remains in stable condition.  

Initial reports from WSB-TV stated two children in a car outside the supermarket had been injured.  

The trouble began when a man and possibly an accomplice tried to rob a bank near the Kroger at North Hairston Road and Memorial Drive, around 1 p.m. Another man tried to intervene, but his wife and two children, who were in a parked car outside the supermarket, became a target for retaliation by the suspect. 

Police said the shooter fired his gun multiple times into the car, critically injuring a two-year-old boy, and then ran off. The boy was then taken into the Kroger and placed on a check-out counter until paramedics arrived. 

James Su, who works at Boost Mobile in the shopping center, told Patch he heard nine shots being fired. When he looked out, he saw a black older-model Honda Accord "with the windows all shattered" and a man and a woman, presumably the parents, "screaming and shouting." Su said two men, one of them armed, ran past his store toward North Hairston Road. 

No arrests have been made.