A southwest Atlanta homeowner shot and killed an apparent intruder just after daybreak Monday, police said.
The shooting happened just before 7:30 a.m. in the 400 block of Connell Avenue, in a neighborhood off Metropolitan Parkway.
“The call was actually called in by one of the homeowners and it appears that the individual shot was an intruder on the man’s property,” Atlanta police Capt. Paul Guerrucci told The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. “The intruder was found outside the house, but we’re still speaking with the homeowner and trying to determine exactly what happened. On the surface, it would appear like a burglary attempt.”
Over the weekend, someone broke into the man’s home while he was there, police spokeswoman Officer Kim Jones said. It wasn’t immediately clear if the intruder in Monday’s incident was the same person who broke into the shooter’s home over the weekend.
“This is under investigation so I can’t confirm that this person is or not,” Jones said.
The identities of the man killed, and of the homeowner, have not been released.
“It’s still early; we have a lot of work to do,” Guerrucci said. “There were no eyewitnesses other than the homeowners that we’ve found.”
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