Tow truck driver wounded in robbery

By Ty Tagami

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

Police in College Park have released the name of the tow truck driver who was shot in an armed robbery early Sunday.

The victim was Rashad Bakari Hunter, Lt. Jose. Nevares, watch commander for the College Park Police Department, told the AJC.

Nevares said he could release no other information in the case, which is still under investigation.

WSB-TV reported on its Web site that family members of the victim said two armed robbers ambushed the driver after the company he worked for, Moody's Wrecker Services in College Park, got a call for a tow.

Nevares said the shooting occurred at 2200 Godby Rd.

When the driver arrived around 1 a.m., according to WSB-TV, a man told him to go behind an apartment complex to tow a car. When he got there, the news station reported, he was confronted by two men, one of whom pulled a gun. He fled, and was shot in the back and hand, WSB-TV reported.