2 sought in fatal shooting outside downtown Atlanta hookah lounge

Investigators are looking to identify two men sought for questioning in the fatal shooting of a 29-year-old outside a downtown Atlanta hookah lounge.

The shooting occurred shortly before midnight Jan. 7 and was among Atlanta’s first homicides of 2021, authorities said. Officers were called to the Encore Hookah Bar & Bistro on Luckie Street and arrived to find DeAndre’ Houston lying unconscious in the road with a gunshot wound. The DeKalb County man was pronounced dead at the scene, Atlanta police said previously.

Witnesses told investigators that a dark-colored vehicle stopped outside the lounge and that a passenger got out and shot Houston before leaving the scene.