A dispute at a Lilburn auto shop escalated into a shooting that left one man dead Monday morning, police said.
That followed a deadly weekend in Gwinnett County, after three people were shot in two separate incidents.
Officers responded to a business at 4534 Stone Mountain Highway on Monday after getting reports of a person shot, Gwinnett police spokeswoman Officer Hideshi Valle said at the scene. Behind the building, which houses multiple businesses, police found a man dead from a gunshot wound, Valle said.
He was later identified by police as 36-year-old Jermaine Brown of Lawrenceville.
Credit: John Spink
Credit: John Spink
The shooting stemmed from a dispute between Brown and the owner of one of the businesses housed there, according to Valle. She said the business owner was being questioned by detectives and no charges have been filed.
Investigators are considering multiple motives, Valle said, including self-defense. Brown was not an employee or a customer of the auto shop, she added.
Two guns were recovered from the scene and police are also interviewing multiple witnesses, Valle said. Investigators did not know how many shots had been fired, and Valle could not say whether both the business owner and Brown were armed during the dispute.
In the two weekend shootings, two victims died and another was critically injured, officials said.
No suspects have been identified in the first shooting, which was reported Saturday night at an apartment building on Britain Drive near Lawrenceville. Police found 39-year-old Patrick Jones of Lawrenceville already dead from a gunshot wound and a second victim, a 49-year-old man, suffering from multiple gunshot wounds. He was taken to a hospital in critical condition.
A man was arrested on multiple charges, including murder, in connection with the second incident, which occurred Sunday at a Burns Road in the Lilburn area, police said. Andre King, 49, was arrested after a woman, later identified as Celeste Lawson, 29, of Bowdon, was found dead at the scene.
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