DeKalb County police are seeking a person of interest in the fatal shooting of a man inside a night club early Sunday morning.
Terry Blount, 26 was inside the club about 3:30 a.m. when he was approached by a man who shot him, according to DeKalb County police.
Blount’s mother, Deborah Dorsey, told The Atlanta Journal-Constitution that relatives with her son in the club at the time said the suspect walked up to Blount and shot him in the chest. Blount then ran outside the Nite Lite Phaze 2 Lounge at Custer and Moreland Avenues and collapsed, according to police.
Dorsey said she was concerned about lax security at the club. “I’m still trying to figure out how a gun got in the club with security. Security must not be no good because a gun was in there,” she said.”We need gun control. Too many young people have guns in their hands. If they don’t like something they react. They shoot.”
Blount was transported to Grady Memorial Hospital where he died around 5 a.m. The suspect apparently is still at large although witnesses, including a cousin of Blount and the woman at the center of the dispute, have identified the man, Dorsey said. Police have not released the name of the person of interest.
The shooting happened just hours after Dorsey last spoke to her son. She said her son called her around 11 p.m. Saturday night to wish her a happy birthday. Dorsey turned 49 on Saturday. His last words to her: “I love you Mama.”
Dorsey, who lives in Lithonia, was roused from her sleep around 4 a.m. Sunday by a call from officials at Grady Hospital telling her to come to the hospital.
“They took a good person,” Dorsey said of her middle child of three. “He’d do anything for anybody.” On Sunday, she said she has received numerous calls from family and friends who’ve told her about the kind things he’s done.
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