1 man dead, another injured in East Point shooting, police say

One man was killed and another was injured after being shot inside a car Wednesday near an East Point gas station, police said.

Officers were called to a business park on the Stone Hogan Connector, where they found two men shot inside the vehicle. One was taken to a hospital, but the other was pronounced dead at the scene, according to East Point police.

The slain man was identified as Christopher White, 28, by the Fulton County Medical Examiner’s Office.

The driver told police that the shooting happened in the parking lot of Washington Plaza on Washington Road, which houses a Piggly Wiggly and a Citgo gas station. The shopping center is nearly three miles from where the vehicle was located.

Authorities did not say what led to the shooting.

Washington Plaza has been the site of other killings in recent years. In February, Alisteir Vashaun Murray was indicted in a January 2022 shooting that left a man dead and injured a woman. Officers found the victims at the Falcon Food Mart, and 29-year-old Quincy Twine later died.

At the same strip mall, the owner of Beauty World, Hyun Chan Cha, was fatally shot inside her store during an attempted robbery in November. The suspect, Nathan Huff, had cased some businesses in the area and chose the beauty supply shop, according to East Point police. Huff was arrested on murder charges.