An off-duty Atlanta police officer shot a gunman who opened fire in a food court on Tuesday afternoon, injuring three people.

Police arrived at Peachtree Center in downtown Atlanta around 2:30 p.m.

Atlanta Mayor Andre Dickens reported that four people were shot – including the alleged shooter – at the Peachtree Center Food Court. He announced on X that the building was on lockdown at the time.

Atlanta Police Chief Darin Schierbaum stated that a 34-year-old man entered the food court and got into an argument with another man, Fox News reports.

The suspected shooter, a convicted felon who has been arrested 11 times, shot the man he argued with, as well as two women. An off-duty Atlanta Zone 1 police officer then shot the suspect, ending the incident.

Four people shot at Peachtree Center Food Court.

Building is now on lockdown.

I am at the public safety HQ with chief.

More information to come.

— Andre Dickens (@andreforatlanta) June 11, 2024

Schierbaum noted that the suspect had previously served prison time for armed robbery and “should never have been in possession of a gun.”

Mayor Dickens commended the officer who wounded the gunman, saying, “Had he not been there, things could have gotten worse.”

The victims were a 47-year-old man and two women, aged 69 and 70. All were transported to Grady Memorial Hospital.

Peachtree Center is a complex of office towers and an underground mall within blocks of several hotels serving Atlanta’s busy convention business.

Several blocks of Peachtree Street were cordoned off with crime scene tape as police officers and firefighters arrived on the scene.

The Georgia Bureau of Investigation has taken over the investigation since it is an officer-involved shooting.