A man was shot and killed at an apartment complex near Decatur just after midnight Thursday, according to authorities.

DeKalb County police got a call at around 12:30 a.m. about a person being shot at The Clarion Apartments off DeKalb Industrial Way just outside Decatur. Responding officers found a man with multiple gunshot wounds, officials said. He had already died.

A bullet broke the blinds and a window to an apartment in DeKalb County after gunfire left one man dead Thursday.

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No other details, including the victim’s name, have been released by police. It’s not clear if police have identified a suspect.

Investigators were still at the scene in the early morning hours Thursday. A bullet hole pierced the blinds and glass of one of the apartment’s windows.

A group inspects the exterior of an apartment where a fatal shooting unfolded just after midnight Thursday.

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