Atlanta police detectives were kept busy Wednesday morning investigating two separate shootings and a fatal pedestrian accident, all in the span of two hours and within a half-mile of one another.
About 6:30 a.m., a man was found dead in the roadway at the intersection of Angier and Ashley avenues, in a neighborhood just north of Freedom Parkway.
Police spokeswoman Kim Jones said the man, whose name has not been released, had been shot several times.
Just before 7 a.m., police responded to a fatal shooting at the Auburn Place Apartments in the 100 block of Fort Street, just south of Freedom Parkway near the Downtown Connector.
Okimi Redding, who identified herself as the girlfriend of the victim, Japhila Thomas, said he was killed by robbers. Redding said she and the 32-year-old victim had two children.
"I just know he was killed; they tried to rob him," Redding said. A witness at the scene said the assailants were two teenage males.
Jones said the shooting "appeared to be drug-related."
Shortly before 8:30 Wednesday morning, a highway maintenance worker was struck by a vehicle and killed on Freedom Parkway east of Boulevard.
Jones said Glenn Johnson, 21, was driving eastbound when “for reasons unknown,” his vehicle left the roadway, went into the median and struck the worker, who was contracted by the state Department of Transportation to do roadside maintenance.
The name of the 27-year-old man killed was being withheld until relatives could be notified.
Johnson was charged with second-degree vehicular homicide and failure to maintain lane.
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