A man is in jail after a fight at a South Fulton restaurant led to a deadly shooting, according to officials.
The fight was reported Thursday at the Fried Rice King Chinese restaurant along Old National Highway, South Fulton police said. When officers arrived, they found one man with a gunshot wound. He was rushed to a hospital, where he later died.
He was identified as 40-year-old Syfee Westmoreland by the Fulton County Medical Examiner’s Office.
According to court records, the suspect, identified by police as Evanson Morin, walked into the restaurant around 6:30 p.m. to get food and saw Westmoreland sitting on a bench. He was on the phone, and the conversation was about guns, Morin told police.
Then, as Morin went to leave the restaurant, Westmoreland attacked him for no reason, according to a warrant for Morin’s arrest. He said Westmoreland punched him several times, and eventually Morin fell to the ground. Then he pulled out a gun and shot Westmoreland multiple times, the warrant states.
Morin then followed Westmoreland out of the restaurant and fired more shots, according to the warrant. The victim was running away, but Morin told police that he continued to shoot because he didn’t know if Westmoreland was going to get a weapon.
“Mr. Morin advised he did not see any weapons on Mr. Westmoreland during their altercation but assumed he may have had a weapon due to hearing Mr. Westmoreland talking about guns before the altercation occurred,” police noted in the warrant.
Morin was booked into the Fulton County jail Friday and faces charges of murder and possession of a firearm during the commission of a felony, according to online records.
No other details have been released by police.
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