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Officials ID man fatally shot, pushed from car onto freeway

The man was pushed out of a moving car in front of an ambulance.
By Steve Burns
June 11, 2016

Officials have identified the man who died Friday after he was shot, then pushed from a car onto the downtown Atlanta connector.

Homer Thirkield, 19, was the man who was shot in the 1600 block of Sylvan Road, then left on I-75/85 northbound near I-20, the Fulton County Medical Examiner’s Office said Saturday.

Thirkield was pushed onto the interstate in front of a Clayton County ambulance, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution previously reported. The emergency workers on that ambulance began performing CPR on the victim, and took him to Grady Memorial Hospital. Police said about 4:30 p.m. that he had died.

Investigators are searching for the red and black cars and any information about the people fighting on Sylvan Road, or what they were fighting about.

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