Just east of Phipps Plaza on the block where the shooting occurred is a residence for New York University Medical School staff and students.

Residents of Phipps Plaza, a state-financed project for middle-income families, said the parking garage had no security guard.

Officials at Phipps Plaza could not be reached for comment.

A resident of Phipps Plaza said that over the last year, the police had shut storefronts in a crackdown on drug dealing and gambling.

Together with Phipps Plaza, an estimated $1 billion was pumped into the local economy in 2007.

Phipps Plaza is an upscale shopping mall located in the affluent Buckhead district of Atlanta.

Phipps Plaza remains Atlanta's only Saks Fifth Avenue venue.

Elsewhere, two of the city's best-known malls, Lenox Square and Phipps Plaza, are getting big face lifts.

She had been purchased, and she was probably the most expensive item for sale that morning at Phipps Plaza.

All leading up to that fateful morning at Phipps Plaza.