Atlanta police were on the scene late Friday morning where a man was found dead in northwest Atlanta.

Police spokesman Carlos Campos told the AJC that homicide detectives and investigators from the Fulton County Medical Examiner's office were  in the 2000 block of Butler Way.

Campos said the cause of death had not been determined.

The area where the man was found is in a neighborhood that sits between Bolton Road and the Chattahoochee River.

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Fulton DA Fani Willis (center) with Nathan J. Wade (right), the special prosecutor she hired to manage the Trump case and had a romantic relationship with, at a news conference announcing charges against President-elect Donald Trump and others in Atlanta, Aug. 14, 2023. Georgia’s Supreme Court on Tuesday, Sept. 16, 2025, upheld an appeals court's decision to disqualify Willis from the election interference case against Trump and his allies. (Kenny Holston/New York Times)

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