Crime & Public Safety
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Police ID man who died in Thursday shooting at Marietta apartments

Marietta police Thursday were investigating an early morning shooting at an apartment complex that left a man dead.

Credit: JOHN SPINK / JSPINK@AJC.COM

Credit: JOHN SPINK / JSPINK@AJC.COM

Marietta police Thursday were investigating an early morning shooting at an apartment complex that left a man dead.
By Mike Morris
March 28, 2014

The man who died Thursday after an early morning shooting at a Marietta apartment complex was identified Friday afternoon as 26-year-old Damion Wright.

Wright, of Marietta, was discovered just after midnight Thursday in the parking lot of the Pointes of Marietta apartment complex on Cunningham Road, Marietta police Det. Christopher Lindsey said in an emailed statement.

He was taken to WellStar Kennestone Hospital, where he died.

"The Marietta Police department is actively working to bring the person(s) responsible for this crime to justice, and is requesting the help of the public in its endeavor," Lindsey said in the statement.

Anyone with information about Wright's murder should call Marietta police Det. Michael Freer at 770-794-5477, or the department's tip line at 770-794-6990.

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