Three girls in Atlanta were shot this week – and within the span of 24 hours, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports.

The shootings began on Wednesday night and ended on Thursday; the youngest victim was 10, and the oldest was 16-years-old. One of the girls died from her injuries. 

The first shooting occurred late Wednesday evening, when a 10-year-old girl who was sitting on her couch watching television was shot twice, one in the leg, and once in the buttocks. According to police, shots were fired outside of the girl's home. The 10-year-old is reportedly in stable condition, Atlanta Fox 5 News reports. 

The second incident happened on Atlanta's Memorial Drive in Atlanta on Thursday, when a 14-year-old girl was shot in the shoulder while walking with two other women. Police told WSB-TV Atlanta that the teenage girl appeared to have been hit by a stray bullet. The teen was immediately transported to a hospital for treatment.

Finally, on Thursday evening, police found a teenage girl with a gunshot wound to the chest in the garage of her boyfriend's home. WSB-TV Atlanta reports that police confiscated three guns from the home. The authorities believe that there were multiple people in the home at the time of the tragic shooting. The 16-year-old victim was transported to the hospital, and died there of her wounds. 

The spate of shootings led Atlanta police Chief Erika Shields to speak out late this week.

“I am concerned by acts of violence against anyone in the City of Atlanta,” Shields said in a statement. “But I’m particularly disturbed when those acts of violence are carried out against juveniles, as has been the case this week with the unacceptable and tragic shootings of three girls, ages 15, 14 and 10.”

Although no one has been arrested as of yet in any of the shootings, Shields promised that Atlanta's officers are working hard to see justice done.

“Rest assured that our investigators are working diligently to make arrests in these cases,” Shields said. “Our department will not stand idly by while our young people are being killed or hurt.”

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