15-year-old boy shot to death in DeKalb apartment community

A shooting in a DeKalb County apartment community left a 15-year-old boy dead Tuesday, according to police.

The 911 call came in around 6:35 p.m. after a person was shot in the 3300 block of Peppertree Circle, in the Woods at Peppertree community off Columbia Drive in the southwest part of the county.

When officers arrived, they found the victim already dead.

No other details were released about the victim, if any suspects have been identified or the circumstances of the shooting.

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