Woman dies after DeKalb cops find her shot by side of the road

DeKalb County police are investigating after a woman was found Monday afternoon shot in the chest on the side of the road.

Marquita Franklin, 36, was on her back on Alston Drive with a gunshot wound to the left breast, when an officer responded to a call from a resident, a police report said. Franklin was on the roadside near the backyard of a home off Memorial Drive.

She was breathing but unconscious and had no identification, the report said, not revealing how she was identified.