Man fatally shot in the middle of street in Atlanta’s Kirkwood neighborhood

A man died Wednesday evening soon after he was found shot in the middle of a busy street in the Kirkwood neighborhood in Atlanta, police said.

Officers were called around 10:40 p.m. to the intersection of Hosea L. Williams Drive and Howard Street on reports of a person shot. Police said they found the victim, identified as Robert Upton, lying on Hosea L. Williams Drive in front of a barber shop with a gunshot wound.

Upton was in critical condition when he was taken to a hospital, where he died.