Atlanta police were still trying to identify a man Friday who fatally shot a store owner in the Old Fourth Ward neighborhood.
The shooting happened shortly after 10 p.m. Wednesday at the convenience store, which is one of four businesses in a two-story brick building at the corner of Irwin and Howell streets.
Police said Zone 6 officers responding to a report of a person shot found the store owner suffering from a gunshot wound to the abdomen.
The victim, identified by the Fulton County Medical Examiner’s office as 48-year-old Suhrid Das, was taken to Grady Memorial Hospital, where he later died.
On Thursday, police released surveillance video that shows the alleged gunman entering Banna Grocery, firing a shot, then turning and walking out the door. Later that night, officers conducted traffic roadblocks in the neighborhood in their search for clues to the shooting, which was followed eight hours later by the home invasion robbery of a family living upstairs from the store.
Police still were trying to determine if there was a connection between the shooting and the home invasion.
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