Atlanta, Georgia: Darryl Callaway, 56, Shot and Killed on Cleveland Avenue as Three Schools Lock Down

A midday shooting in southeast Atlanta left a 56-year-old man dead on Wednesday and sent three elementary schools into lockdown while officers searched for a suspect.

Atlanta police said officers responded to a shooting near 5 Cleveland Avenue SE on Wednesday afternoon, according to WSB-TV and FOX 5 Atlanta. Officers found a man who had been shot multiple times, and he was pronounced dead. WSB-TV identified the man as Darryl Callaway, 56. FOX 5 reported that police had not released the identities of the man who died or of the person held in the first hours after the shooting, and that investigators had not confirmed what led to the gunfire.

The chase and the school lockdowns

WSB-TV reported that officers chased a suspect who crashed and was then taken into custody. FOX 5 reported that officers detained one suspect at the scene and that police described the shooting as an isolated incident.

While officers searched for the suspect, three elementary schools in the area were placed on lockdown, WSB-TV reported, and dismissal was changed for students at one of the schools. Atlanta News First also reported that a shooting near a south Atlanta elementary school prompted a brief lockdown. No students were reported hurt in any of the local reports, and the lockdowns were a precaution while police worked the scene and the search.

What police have not said

Atlanta police have not announced the name of the person in custody or any charges in the reports published so far, and no motive has been released. Detectives have not said whether Callaway and the person in custody knew each other, and they have not described what happened in the moments before the shots were fired on Cleveland Avenue.

The shooting closed a stretch of a residential corridor in southeast Atlanta during the afternoon, in an area where homes sit close to the schools that locked down. For families at those schools, the first word of the shooting came through the lockdown and the changed dismissal, not through any warning before it.

The investigation remains active. Police have not said when they expect to release the custody and charging details, and the case will turn on what detectives can establish about the argument or encounter, if any, that came before the shooting, and on the account of the person now in custody.