A College Park man stabbed in the neck Tuesday afternoon in northwest Atlanta died at Grady Hospital later that day, police said.

The man has been identified as 58-year-old Clifford Johnson, police said.

Johnson was stabbed in the 500 block of Griffin Street, police said. Police found him in front of the Neighborhood Grocery. He was immediately transported to Grady Hospital where he died from the injury.

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