Update: Man, 20, killed in DeKalb County gas station shooting

DeKalb police are investigating a shooting at a Candler Road gas station that left a 20-year-old man dead.

About 7 a.m. Thursday, DeKalb police found the unidentified man inside a pickup truck at a Valero gas station off I-20, Capt. Stephen Fore told The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. He’d been shot in the chest.

The man was taken to Grady Memorial Hospital, where he died.

No other details were immediately released.

— Please return to AJC.com for details.

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