Man taken to hospital after shooting outside Dollar General in DeKalb

DeKalb County police are investigating a shooting Tuesday morning outside a Dollar General that sent a man to a hospital.

Investigators strung up crime scene tape in the parking lot between the dollar store and a package store on Wesley Chapel Road after the man was shot around 5 a.m. His condition was not released.

DeKalb Police investigating shooting on side of a Dollar General store on Wesley Chapel Rd at I-20. One victim taken to hospital pic.twitter.com/TgiNsfDgWM
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The circumstances surrounding the shooting were not clear. No suspects or arrests have been made public.

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