Crime & Public Safety

Man shot, killed in SW Atlanta’s Mozley Park neighborhood

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Atlanta police investigate a fatal shooting at a Shell gas station in southwest Atlanta early Tuesday.
March 15, 2023

A man was fatally shot at a southwest Atlanta gas station Wednesday morning, according to police.

Atlanta officers responded to the area of Gordon Terrace and Martin Luther King Jr. Drive in the Mozley Park neighborhood around 7:30 a.m. When they got there, they found a man with a gunshot wound, police said. He was pronounced dead at the scene.

The victim was identified as 21-year-old Adonnis Williams by the Fulton County Medical Examiner’s Office.

Details are limited, but investigators believe Williams was shot at a Shell gas station on MLK Drive and then made his way around the corner to Gordon Terrace, where someone called 911.

No other information has been disclosed by police.

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