A man was shot and killed outside a food mart in southeast Atlanta early Monday, according to authorities.
Atlanta police responded around 1:30 a.m. to the shooting at Little Bear Food Mart on Jonesboro Road in the Lakewood Heights neighborhood. When officers arrived, they found a man with several gunshot wounds, police said. The victim, identified as 32-year-old Eric McElroy by the Fulton County Medical Examiner’s Office, was pronounced dead at the scene.
Details are limited, but the shooting happened after an argument in the parking lot, Channel 2 Action News reported. A suspect was being interviewed, police homicide commander Lt. Germain Dearlove told the news station.
The food mart was the site of a fatal shooting in October 2020. Chiurazzi Bailey, 32, was shot in the chest after coming out of the store, authorities said at the time. The suspect then went through the victim’s pockets and fled in a black sedan. No arrests have been announced in the case.
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