Homicide detectives are investigating after a man was found dead in a car in northwest Atlanta on Sunday, police said.

The body was discovered after police received a call about a vehicle stopped in the roadway on Hood Avenue at Oldknow Road.

The man, who was in the driver’s seat of a red Monte Carlo, had been shot several times in the chest, Atlanta police spokeswoman Officer Kim Jones said.

The Monte Carlo had been reported as stolen out of DeKalb County, she said.

No other information was immediately available.

The investigation is continuing.

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The renovation of Jekyll Island's Great Dunes golf course includes nine holes designed by Walter Travis in the 1920s for the members of the Jekyll Island Club. Several holes that were part of the original layout where located along the beach and were bulldozed in the 1950s.(Photo by Austin Kaseman)

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