Grandmother shot, killed while holding 3-month-old grandson at Atlanta home, family says

Police are searching for the suspects who fired into an Atlanta home and killed a 57-year-old mother and grandmother.

The shooting happened Tuesday morning around 5 a.m. off Highview Road in southwest Atlanta. Police believe the house was the target, but the victim was not.

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Family members shared Channel 2′s Steve Gehlbach photos of Andrea Brown, a mother of three and grandmother to a 3-month-old baby boy. Brown’s family said the infant was in her arms as bullets flew into her bedroom.

Four others, including a 3-year-old girl, were also inside the home as suspects pulled up to the curb and started shooting.

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Atlanta police said they were looking for one, likely two shooters and called Brown an unintended victim of a targeted attack.

“It’s not a random incident. This house was targeted,” Lt. Germain Dearlove said.

Investigators haven’t released a possible motive, only that they want to find who’s responsible and get them off the streets.

“For these suspects to do that, not knowing who their target is, just shooting into the house... we can’t have these folks walking around in our city,” Dearlove said.

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