A woman shot and killed a man in self-defense Tuesday at a troubled South Fulton condominium complex, police said.
The domestic violence incident took place at the Camelot Condominiums on Old National Highway, police spokesman Lt. Jubal Rogers said. At some point, the woman shot in self-defense, striking the man, Rogers said.
She was detained at the scene but later released from police custody.
The man’s name was not provided and no details were released about the initial altercation.
The condominium is among 272 of the metro area’s persistently dangerous complexes, according to an investigation by The Atlanta Journal-Constitution that looked into serious crimes, lax maintenance and other hazards in Atlanta neighborhoods. The complex, sometimes referred to as “The Trenches,” has had a reputation for fires, squatters and crime, which the city said was mostly drug related. At least five homicides occurred there between March 2019 and June 2022, according to crime data.
On Jan. 18, South Fulton police were called to the complex and found a teenager suffering from a gunshot wound. MiQuavious Blanchard had taken his family’s trash to the nearby Camelot, where he was approached by someone about using the dumpster, his mother previously told the AJC.
Blanchard tried to get in a vehicle and leave, but someone shot him, police said. At the scene, Apollonia Blanchard said she found her son in a van, which had gone through a fence and hit a tree.
In May 2021, three people were found shot to death at the complex, according to police.
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