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Teen shot on New Year’s Day identified
By Mike Morris
Jan 3, 2013The young man killed Tuesday in Atlanta’s first fatal shooting of the New Year has been identified as 18-year-old Jared Billings.
Billings was found shot in the chest around 9 a.m. Tuesday at a home in the 1300 block of Epworth Street. He was taken to Grady Memorial Hospital, where he died a short time later.
Atlanta police spokeswoman Kim Jones said in an e-mail that witnesses told investigators that the victim had gotten into an argument with another male, who pulled a gun and shot him.
Jones said Thursday that no arrests had been made.
