Officials ID man who shot his 6-year-old son, killed himself near park in SW Atlanta
Authorities have identified a man who shot and injured his 6-year-old son, then shot and killed himself near a public park in southwest Atlanta on Monday.
The Fulton County Medical Examiner’s Office said Michael Williams, 43, turned a gun on himself after shooting his child.
The incident happened about 4:30 p.m. near Perkerson Park on Deckner Avenue, just south of Atlanta’s Beltline.
Officers at the scene found Williams sitting in a car with a gunshot wound to the head, according to Atlanta police spokeswoman Officer TaSheena Brown. He died at the scene.
The child was in the back seat of the vehicle with a gunshot wound to the face but was alert, Brown said. The boy was taken to Children's Healthcare of Atlanta at Egleston, where he was stable Tuesday morning.
#Breaking APD confirms a father and his six-year old son were found shot in their car in an apparent attempted murder-suicide. pic.twitter.com/U8ZjgKRZTO
— Richard Elliot (@RElliotWSB) July 22, 2019
The case remains under investigation.
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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.
