MARTA Police Officers Shot in Confrontation at Five Points Station as Search for Suspect Intensifies

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Two MARTA police officers were shot while confronting a man urinating near a platform at the Five Points station in downtown Atlanta late Thursday. The officers were taken to Grady Memorial Hospital, with one suffering an arm injury and the other a graze wound to her knee; both are expected to recover. U.S. Marshals are searching for the suspect, who fled the scene and discarded his handgun on a train roof after the incident.