Officials ID woman found dead in SW Atlanta during wellness check

Fulton County officials have identified a woman who was found dead from multiple gunshot wounds Monday at a home in southwest Atlanta after authorities forced their way inside to conduct a wellness check.

Officers were called to a home on Sandridge Place in the Sandlewood Estates neighborhood just before 6:15 p.m., Atlanta police said. When they arrived, they could not get inside the single-family home and requested assistance from Atlanta Fire Rescue.

Firefighters forced their way into the house and found the woman, police said. Medical personnel pronounced her dead at the scene. She was identified as 51-year-old Samantha Bozeman by the Fulton Medical Examiner’s Office.