By Rhonda Cook
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
ATLANTA — Atlanta Fire Rescue opened an internal investigation this weekend after video surfaced of rescuers looking at a fatally shot man and then walking away without checking to see whether he was alive. The department said it would review a surveillance video of the Dec. 4 shooting at Moreland Package Store.
TV station WGLC, the CBS Atlanta news station, posted video showing two paramedics and a firefighter looking over a store counter, supposedly at the spot where Martez McKibben had fallen. In the video, they walk away after a few moments. Police said McKibben, 21, was shot by one of two men who entered just before 10 p.m. Store owner Shaun Yu came out of the back with his own weapon and shot the gunman twice; both suspects fled and were later caught.
The three rescuers who arrived on the scene “just looked at him, didn’t even reach down and feel for a pulse,” Yu said of McKibben. “When police asked us to leave the building, he was still breathing.”
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