DeKalb County police are investigating the Sunday night shooting of a man found dead inside an apartment near Stone Mountain.

Channel 2 Action News reported that a woman at the Lancashire Court complex called 911 just before midnight to report that the door of an upstairs unit was left open.

Responding officers found the man’s body inside the living room of the apartment. He had been shot in the head, according to Channel 2.

The name of the victim, who was in his 20s, has not been released.

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Julian Conley listens during opening statements in his trial at Fulton County Superior Court in Atlanta on Wednesday, Sept. 17, 2025. The 25-year-old is accused of fatally shooting 8-year-old Secoriea Turner in July 2020. (Abbey Cutrer/AJC)

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