Hall County deputies are looking for a suspect after a 24-year-old man was shot in the head and killed Monday morning.

Cornelius Gordon was seated in a car outside 2241 Barnes Drive in Gainesville when someone walked over and shot him about 2 a.m., Hall County sheriff’s spokesman Lt. Scott Ware said in a news release.

Gordon’s friends drove him to Northeast Georgia Medical Center, where he died, Ware said.

Anyone with information is asked to contact Investigator Ashley Corwin at 770-533-7813.

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