Thread: Atlanta, 4 dead, 2 wounded

Immigrants. Doesn't say if they were legal or illegal.
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ATLANTA - A man neighbors described as a retired factory worker shot three people to death and wounded two others before killing himself in a southwest Atlanta home Monday, authorities said.

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All of the victims were believed to be related, Atlanta police spokesman Eric Schwartz said.

Police identified the gunman as Abdulaziz Ibrahim, 52. Officers also found the bodies of Hana Yusuf, 26, and Luna Tesfaye, 24, Schwartz said. Another victim, Mohammad Ibrahim, 28, died at Grady Memorial Hospital.

Three-year-old Amir Abdulhakim was in critical condition at Children's Healthcare of Atlanta at Egleston, and Yusef Ibrahim, 27, was in stable condition at Grady, police said.

Police said they were interviewing both a teenage girl who was in the house during the shooting but was unharmed, and Abdulaziz Ibrahim's wife, who had left home shortly before the 7 a.m. shootings.

Neighbor Charlene Weiters said the family moved into the house about 12 years ago from overseas. She said Abdulaziz Ibrahim was a retired manufacturing worker who occasionally gave the neighborhood children small toys and school supplies.

"We think he was sick, he must have been," she said between sobs. "He was so sweet, he was so sweet he wouldn't hurt anybody."

Weiters said she often saw him playing with his grandson in the yard. She said she believed Ibrahim lived in the home with his wife, three children, two nieces and two grandchildren.

(This version CORRECTS name spellings according to new police information.)
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It's sad to hear anything like this........it just seems to me there's not much effort into assimilation anymore. We are having a multitude of different cultures comming here......I remember a terrible murder around here.....cultural differences. How can you tell or see warning signs when people can't even talk to each other anymore or know what someone is going through. Who knows what throws another over the edge? Just about every serial killer and child molester was "nice", gave candy to the kids......whatever.....we're treading on unfamaliar ground where we don't even know what's unfamaliar or unusual anymore or when people need help and can't show it.....