A man who was shooting at another man in northwest Atlanta was fatally shot by officers Friday evening, police said.
Two Atlanta officers were patrolling the area near the 800 block of Martin Luther King Jr. Drive when they heard gunfire just before 9 p.m. According to authorities, a man was actively shooting at another man. The shooter was identified by the GBI as 35-year-old Willie Williams.
Officers gave several commands to Williams, but the GBI said he continued shooting. That’s when the two officers fired, authorities said. Williams was shot multiple times and died at the scene.
Williams’ body was taken to the Fulton County Medical Examiner’s Office for an autopsy, the GBI said.
The incident location is near a Chick-fil-A restaurant and north of the Clark Atlanta University and Morehouse College campuses. No other details on the initial shooting were provided.
Credit: Ben Hendren for the Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Credit: Ben Hendren for the Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Friday’s incident is the second officer-involved shooting in Atlanta this week. On Tuesday, an officer attempting to intervene in a road-rage incident shot and killed 35-year-old James Wilborn in Midtown, police said.
The GBI is also investigating that shooting, which occurred shortly after 8 p.m. at the intersection of West Peachtree and 16th streets after the officer came upon a troubling scene involving two vehicles. A woman was thrown from the hood of a Mercedes-Benz as its driver attempted to drive away, according to authorities.
Friday’s incident is the 98th officer-involved shooting the GBI has been asked to investigate this year. There were 100 officer-involved shootings in Georgia in all of 2021, according to the state agency.
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