Crime & Public Safety
Crime & Public Safety

BREAKING: Man shot, killed in SW Atlanta

Police found the man with a gunshot wound to the chest.
Police found the man with a gunshot wound to the chest.
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Nov 12, 2019

A man is dead after a shooting Tuesday morning in southwest Atlanta, officials said.

The fatal shooting happened at a home in the 800 block of Smith Street, Atlanta police told AJC.com.

Officers were sent to the house shortly before 10 a.m. and found the man with a gunshot wound to the chest, police spokesman Officer Anthony Grant said. The unidentified man died of his injuries.

Homicide investigators are en route to the scene of the shooting, Grant said. An investigation is ongoing.

In other news: 

Channel 2's Nicole Carr reports.

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Asia Simone Burns is a watchdog reporter for the AJC. Burns was formerly an intern in AJC’s newsroom and now writes about crime. She is a graduate of Samford University and has previously reported for NPR and WABE, Atlanta’s NPR member station.

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