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Medical examiner identifies shooting victim killed at Atlanta studio

Channel 2's Rikki Klaus is talking to investigators at the scene about what happened.
By Ellen Eldridge
April 21, 2016

Police now know the identity of one of two men killed in shooting at an Atlanta studio Wednesday.

Nathan Shannon, 27, of Atlanta, was killed when gunfire erupted at a southwest Atlanta recording studio shortly after 8 p.m. The identity of the second man killed has not been released.

Atlanta police Major Adam Lee III said multiple gunshot injuries were visible on two people were found dead at Metropolitan Parkway SW and Bronner Brothers Way in the Metropolitan Business and Arts District.

Bullets ruptured a waterline and flooded the crime scene, delaying the police investigation, police told Channel 2 Action News.

No other details were released.

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