Officials ID 16-year-old boy shot, killed at home in SE Atlanta

A teenage boy died after being struck by gunfire at a home in southeast Atlanta on Saturday evening, authorities said.

Atlanta police were called around 11 p.m. to the two-story house in the 900 block of Linam Avenue for a person shot. The home is located in the Peoplestown neighborhood near Hank Aaron Drive.

At the scene, officers found the 16-year-old suffering from a gunshot wound. He was taken to a hospital, where he died. He was identified as Marcellius Stokes by the Fulton County Medical Examiner’s Office.