Police are reviewing hours of surveillance video looking for leads in Friday night's fatal shooting at Underground Atlanta, homicide commander Lt. Paul Guerrucci told the AJC on Sunday.
An argument led to the incident, but police don't yet know what it was about or who was involved, Guerrucci said Saturday.
"The only thing we've been able to determine is it was an argument between people that escalated into a shooting," Guerrucci said. "We haven't been able to find any of the people involved."
A lot of people were milling around the glass entrance to Underground from Upper Alabama and across Peachtree Street outside the MARTA Five Points station around 9 p.m., the time of the shooting. But it was too noisy for them to hear details in the dispute, Guerrucci said.
"We have talked to several witnesses and they don't know what the argument was about," Guerrucci said.
Guerrucci said it was too noisy for any witnesses to understand the angry words one man exchanged with others.
"Until we find those directly involved, we don't know," he said.
At least four shots were fired inside the glass enclosure at the top of the escalator down to the mall, and Demons Hambrick was struck in the back, according to police.
Hambrick died before reaching Grady Memorial Hospital, Guerrucci said.
That was the second shooting in downtown Atlanta Friday evening.
But the shooting at 6:40 p.m. was not fatal and all the suspects are in custody.
Around 6:40 p.m. Friday a man was shot in the shoulder when another tried to rob a group during a drug deal taking place inside an SUV, according to APD spokeswoman officer K.Y. Jones.
They were at Simpson and West Peachtree Street, a short distance north of the Hyatt Regency Hotel on Peachtree Street and four blocks from Centennial Olympic Park.
After trying to rob the four men and shooting one of them, the shooter was dragged a short distance when he tried to get out of the SUV as it was moving. All the men were captured about an hour after the shooting.
--Angel K. Brooks contributed to this article.
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