The Fulton County Medical Examiner’s office has identified a man shot and killed in southwest Atlanta Monday afternoon as Ishmael McGhee, 21, of Atlanta.

McGhee was shot around 5:30 p.m. Monday near the intersection of Athens and Dill avenues, and died later at Grady Memorial Hospital.

Channel 2 Action News reported that witnesses told Atlanta police that the gunman got out of his car, talked to the victim, then opened fire.

Investigators do not believe the shooting was random.

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