China News Agency, San Francisco, August 22. According to US media reports, a shooting occurred in the center of Atlanta, the capital of the southeastern Georgia state of the United States, on the 22nd local time, killing two people and injuring one.
A suspect was arrested at the airport.
The Associated Press reported that at about 13:45 on the 22nd, Atlanta police who received the call found two people shot in a downtown building.
One of them died at the scene and the other was taken to hospital for treatment, police said.
About 15 minutes later, police were again called to reports of a shooting in a second building less than a mile (1.6 kilometers) away.
One of the people who was shot was taken to hospital and died of serious injuries.
The New York Times reported that Darin Schierbaum, the interim chief of the Atlanta Police Department, said that after the shooting, police searched the area and issued a "shelter-in-place" order to the public.
At around 16:00 on the same day, the police arrested a female suspect suspected of causing two shooting incidents at Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport in Atlanta.
CNN quoted Schilbaum as saying that police found a handgun at the airport.
Atlanta Mayor Andrea Dickens said the suspect was apprehended before going through airport security.
Police said an "extensive network of video surveillance" helped them track down the suspect.
Schilbaum said at a news conference that day that police did not believe the shooting that day was a random act of violence.
Police said the suspect's motive was unclear at this time.
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