A late-night shootout in a south DeKalb County neighborhood Tuesday left two men dead, police said.

DeKalb police spokeswoman Bettina Durant said the shooting broke out during a dispute between two men on Mallard Trail off Covington Highway.

The men, who fired at each other, both died, Durant said.

She said one man was driven to a gas station at Covington Highway and Panola Road, where he died, while the second man was found deceased at the shooting scene.

The identities of the men, and a motive for the shooting, have not been released.

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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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