‘This can’t keep happening’: Mother calls for more security after son shot twice at same apartment complex

ATLANTA (Atlanta News First/Gray News) — An Atlanta mother is calling for increased security at her apartment complex after her 13-year-old son survived his second shooting there in a year.“This can’t keep happening,” Shantavia Battle said.Teen shot while sleepingBattle said her son was shot four times while sleeping inside their apartment at Capitol Vanira on Hank Aaron Drive on Sunday. Detectives said the apartment was targeted, with more than 100 shots fired into the unit.Battle described scrambling to get her family to safety as the gunfire erupted.“You could hear three different shots, so I told everybody to get on the floor and everybody come into the bathroom,” she said.Battle’s son has since been released from the hospital and is expected to recover, but she said families at the southeast Atlanta complex need more protection.“We don’t have security. We don’t have anybody. We don’t have anyone to help us, and it doesn’t make sense,” she said.Second shooting in a yearThe shooting