Atlanta police said a man who had been shot was found dead after crashing his SUV into a northwest Atlanta home Saturday night.
Ashley Brown, 35, of Columbia, S.C., had been shot multiple times, according to police spokesman Officer John Chafee.
Detectives believe he exchanged gunfire with someone before driving about two blocks, Channel 2 Action News reported.
Brown slammed into a house in the 3000 block of Kingston Road.
Homeowners Alphonso and Alicia McCoy were home but not hurt in the crash.
“I just hate that my house was hurt, but I praise God and I thank him, anyway,” Alicia McCoy told Channel 2.
Alphonso McCoy said he was sitting on the sofa having a snack when he heard the car hit his house.
“We heard this big boom and I looked right through the window and the car was sitting there,” he told Channel 2. “[The driver] was slumped over the seat, all the little bit I could see.”
Alicia McCoy said she couldn’t see in the car, but that her neighbors said the driver “looked like he had been shot.”
Homicide detectives are continuing to investigate.
Motorcyclist killed in Cobb County crash
A motorcyclist was killed after hitting a Mercedes in Cobb County on Saturday night.
Marc R. Ullmann, 44, was thrown from his motorcycle at the intersection of Cobb Parkway and Paces Mill Road after he hit the driver’s side door of a Mercedes that was trying to make a U-turn in the intersection, according to Cobb County police spokesman Sgt. Dana Pierce.
Ullmann was taken by ambulance to Wellstar Kennestone Hospital and pronounced dead.
The driver of the Mercedes, Demond M. Tate, 28, was also taken to Wellstar with non life-threatening injuries, according to Pierce.
Cobb County police said they expect charges to be filed in the crash and ask that anyone with more information call 770-499-3987.
Authorities ID body found along south Fulton road
Authorities on Sunday released the name of the man whose body was found Friday along a south Fulton County roadway.
The man was identified as Nicholas Grant, 32, of College Park, the Fulton County Medical Examiner’s Office said.
Grant’s body was discovered about 11:20 a.m. on Aldredge Road near Butner Road, just south of Camp Creek Parkway, according to police.
His death is believed to be the result of foul play, Fulton Police Detective Melissa Parker said.
Parker said a passer-by driving along the residential road reported the unidentified man laying on the ground near a gravel lot at the intersection of the two streets, just across from the entrance to a residential subdivision.
“Somebody turning around at this location spotted the body just a few feet off the roadway,” Parker said. “We’re not exactly sure how long he’s been there.”
Lawrenceville man dies in Lake Lanier
A 33-year-old Lawrenceville man drowned Sunday in Lake Lanier, authorities said.
The man, whose identity has not been released, was on the Forsyth County side of the lake.
There were conflicting reports indicating he was either swimming with a float or diving off the back of a boat when he went under and did not resurface.
His body was recovered late Sunday near Vann Tavern Park by dive teams from Forsyth and Hall counties, a spokesman said.
Pedestrian killed on Downtown Connector
A pedestrian was struck and killed on the Downtown Connector early Sunday, police said.
The man was found dead on I-75/85 southbound near Arthur B. Langford Jr. Parkway around 5:15 a.m., Atlanta police spokesman Officer John Chafee said.
The preliminary investigation indicates that he was hit several times by vehicles that did not stay on the scene, Chafee said.
Police are investigating why the man was on the interstate, which was closed for about two hours after the incident.
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