A security guard accused of fatally shooting a colleague in the lobby of a Buckhead office building waived his first appearance Friday and will remain in the Fulton County Jail without bond.
A Fulton magistrate scheduled the next hearing for Dexter Harper for 9:30 a.m. Oct. 16.
Police have not revealed a motive for the shooting, which happened about 5 a.m. Thursday in an office tower in the 3300 block of Peachtree Road that houses numerous businesses, including the Buckhead Center of Georgia State University’s J. Mack Robinson College of Business and several realty offices.
“We have two security guards who were working here at this location,” Atlanta police Lt. Charles Hampton told The Atlanta Journal-Constitution on the day of the shooting. “We’re not sure what the motive was. We’re being told there may have been some type of verbal argument that escalated to the gunfire.”
A man identified Thursday afternoon as Emmanuel C. Nwankwo, 23, of Riverdale, appeared to have been shot multiple times and died at the scene, Hampton said. Police recovered a handgun at the crime scene.
Harper, 26, was taken to police headquarters for questioning before police arrested him on a charge of murder.
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