DeKalb County investigators have accused a man of murder in a deadly shooting outside a Stone Mountain-area gas station, police said Friday.
Rodney Bowers, 22, of Stone Mountain, was arrested late Thursday, hours after the shooting, police said. He was being held without bond Friday at the DeKalb County Jail.
Officers were called to a Valero near the busy intersection of Panola and Redan roads shortly before 4 p.m. Investigators told Channel 2 Action News that shots were fired during a dispute between two men.
According to a police spokesman, officers arrived and found a man in his 30s with a gunshot wound. He was rushed to Grady Memorial Hospital in “extremely critical condition,” detectives at the scene told the news station.
The man, 25-year-old Ahmir Rosario, later died at the hospital, according to police spokesman Lt. Shane Smith. At the time of his death, Rosario had outstanding warrants for his arrest related to an armed robbery and shooting that occurred at the same Valero gas station on Feb. 8, Smith said.
While investigators were still at the scene Thursday evening, a man in his 20s showed up at the Emory Clinic at Lithonia to be treated for a gunshot wound. According to Channel 2, that man was the alleged shooter and had driven himself to the hospital. The extent of his injuries was not immediately clear.
Credit: Channel 2 Action News
Credit: Channel 2 Action News
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