Officials ID man killed in I-75 road rage shootout, hit-and-run crash
A man died Saturday night after getting into a road rage shootout with another driver near Midtown on I-75, where he was then struck by two vehicles, including an Atlanta police patrol car, authorities said.
Damari Xavien Jordan, 21, was traveling northbound on the interstate in a silver sedan about 10:20 p.m. when he collided with the right rear side of a Ford pickup truck near Northside Drive, according to the Georgia State Patrol. The area is just north of the Atlantic Station shopping district.
After both drivers pulled over to the shoulder, Jordan walked to the truck and the two drivers exchanged gunfire, troopers said. Witnesses then saw Jordan fall into interstate traffic, where he was struck by an unidentified driver who left the scene, officials said.
Soon after, an Atlanta police officer traveling in that lane also struck the man, according to the GSP. In a statement, the Atlanta department said its officer was unaware of what had happened earlier when the patrol vehicle hit Jordan.
He was pronounced dead at the scene by the Fulton County Medical Examiner’s Office. The agency said Tuesday that Jordan’s cause of death was “multiple gunshot wounds” with another “significant cause” being “multiple generalized blunt force injuries.”
The GSP said Atlanta police were handling the investigation into the shooting and initial crash, while the state agency was handling the hit-and-run and the subsequent crash involving the officer.
APD said the driver involved in the initial shooting incident, whose name was not released, stayed at the scene and is cooperating with the investigation. Officials did not say if charges were forthcoming.
