A man was shot and killed outside a grocery store in a southwest Atlanta neighborhood Tuesday morning, police said.
Homicide detectives are now investigating the fatal shooting, which happened around 7:15 a.m. in the Westview neighborhood south of I-20. Officers called to the Westview Corner Grocery, an independently-owned natural foods store in the 1500 block of Ralph David Abernathy Boulevard, found the victim dead in a parking lot behind the store.
The victim was identified by the Fulton County Medical Examiner’s office as 24-year-old Septimus Wise.
Police did not give details on what led to the shooting. Police did not say whether the shooting appeared to be connected to the grocery store. An owner told The Atlanta Journal-Constitution the shooting had no ties to the store or any of its employees.
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