UPDATE: Man Shot in Midtown, Drugs "May Have Been Factor"

UPDATE (10:30 p.m.): Atlanta police have released a statement regarding the shooting which occurred in Midtown on Wednesday.

According to the statement, a 23-year-old man was shot at least once in the back in the vicnity of 121 8th St. at approximately 8:50 p.m. The man was taken to Grady Memorial Hospital and was alert, breathing, and conscious, the statement read.

Investigators believe the shooting may have been drug-related, and said that the victim and the shooter knew one another, according to the statement. No arrests have been made yet.

UPDATE (10:00 p.m.): Atlanta police say that a man who was shot in the back in Midtown on Wednesday evening is alert, breathing, and conscious.

Police spokesperson Ralph Woolfolk tells Patch that the victim is a 23-year-old male, not a man in his fifties as originally reported.

ORIGINAL STORY (9:00 p.m.): Atlanta police are investigating a shooting which occurred in Midtown on Wednesday evening.

Police spokesman Ralph Woolfolk tells Patch that the victim, a man in his fifties, was shot in the back near 121 8th St. Police were alerted of the shooting at 8:50 p.m., Woolfolk says.

Woolfolk says that the victim is being taken to a local hospital.

Stay with Patch as we continue to learn more about this breaking story.