A 26-year-old Stone Mountain man has been arrested in connection with a shooting last month that left a Decatur man dead, a DeKalb County Sheriff’s Office spokeswoman said Monday.
A warrant was issued Tuesday for Terrance Stradford, who is suspected of fatally shooting 20-year-old Timothy Hurston in the back on Jan. 28 at a Citgo gas station near Stone Mountain.
Stradford was arrested Wednesday on a murder charge at the Evergreen hotel, DeKalb sheriff spokeswoman Cynthia Williams said.
The arrest came nearly three weeks after a woman who drove Hurston and another passenger in a green Pontiac Grand Prix stopped at the Citgo on Stone Mill Way, according to a DeKalb police report obtained by The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
The woman told police a man walked up to her on the driver’s side about 6:40 p.m. and demanded she get out of the car and give him everything she had. Instead, the woman drove away. She said she heard multiple gunshots being fired behind her, according to the report.
Hurston was shot in the back, Williams said. The other passenger was not injured.
Duke told police she drove to the nearest hospital, Emory University Orthopaedics and Spine Hospital on Montreal Road. That’s where officers found her car riddled with holes on the driver’s side and multiple people surrounding Hurston and rendering aid, according to the report.
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