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Atlanta police investigate fatal shooting at Buckhead park

Officers were called to the park in the Pine Hills neighborhood in response to a person shot, an Atlanta police spokesman said.

Credit: Henri Hollis

Credit: Henri Hollis

Officers were called to the park in the Pine Hills neighborhood in response to a person shot, an Atlanta police spokesman said.
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Updated April 7, 2023

A man was shot and killed at Shady Valley Park in Buckhead on Thursday evening, authorities confirmed.

Officers found the victim inside the park at about 5:20 p.m. dead of what appeared to be a self-inflicted gunshot wound, an Atlanta police spokesperson said in a news release. The preliminary investigation appears to be “consistent with suicide,” the spokesperson said.

Shady Valley Park is located just north of the intersection of Buford Highway and Lenox Road.

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