Police blocked off a section of a southwest Atlanta neighborhood for hours Monday afternoon to search for a suspect wanted in a fatal shooting, though no one was arrested.

Officers were called to a home on Holderness Street in the West End neighborhood after getting reports of a shooting just before 3 p.m., Atlanta police said. At the scene, they found a 19-year-old with a gunshot wound who was unresponsive. He was later pronounced dead by medical personnel, police said.

The victim was identified as Ashton Jackson by the Fulton County Medical Examiner’s Office. No further details have been released about the circumstances around the incident.

Atlanta police blocked off Holderness Street in the West End neighborhood to investigate a fatal shooting.

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Yellow police tape festooned the length of Holderness Street, a short dead-end road in a residential neighborhood of single-family homes that hugs I-20 between Enota Park and West End Park. Neighbors inside the police perimeter could be seen hugging in the street as officers swarmed the area.

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