A photographer stumbled upon a human skull near train tracks in northwest Atlanta shortly after midnight Tuesday.
Atlanta police got the call around 12:30 a.m. about human remains being found near the tracks in the area of North Avenue and Northside Drive, not far from Bankhead. When officers arrived, they found what appeared to be a human skull and called the Fulton County Medical Examiner’s Office.
Credit: Ben Hendren for The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Credit: Ben Hendren for The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
A medical examiner’s office investigator confirmed the skull was human and took possession of it for additional investigation. No other remains appeared to be in the surrounding area.
The man who found it did not want to be publicly identified. He said he was photographing graffiti when he found the skull between a building and a fence along the tracks.
Credit: Ben Hendren for The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Credit: Ben Hendren for The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Police did not share any other details.
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