Man dead after shooting in SW Atlanta intersection

A man is dead after he was shot in a southwest Atlanta intersection late Monday evening, according to police.

Jerome McKibbens, 33, was found with a gunshot wound at the intersection of Martin Luther King Jr. Drive and Fairburn Road, according to the Fulton County Medical Examiner’s Office.

Officers were sent to the intersection about 11:30 p.m. after the shooting was reported, Atlanta police said in a statement. When they arrived, they found the victim with a gunshot wound.

McKibbens had died of his injuries before police arrived at the scene.

Homicide investigators are working to determine the circumstances surround the shooting, police said.

— Please return to The Atlanta Journal-Constitution for updates.

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