Earlier today, Atlanta police were called to 507 Bishop St, where a man was found shot in his vehicle. The Atlanta Police Department reports that the victim, yet to be identified publicly, was located with a gunshot wound to the head, sitting in the driver's seat of a gray Jeep. Despite his critical condition, he was breathing when transported to the nearest hospital.

The incident appears to be tied to a spree of vehicular thefts, starting at 3334 Peachtree Rd, and later at the scene where the victim was found. While law enforcement officials are piecing together the events that led to the shooting, there was a discovery of two more vehicles having been broken into at the Bishop Street location—both vehicles left ransacked, windows shattered, a silent testament to the desperation that might have preceded the violent encounter.

The victim seems to have been targeted after the thefts, and what transpired in the moments leading up to the shooting remains unclear. Officers arrived around 3:41 a.m., indicating that the crime took place amid the stillness of a night interrupted by sirens and emergency response.

With the suspect remaining unknown, there is an urge amongst the community to separate the wound from the wounded, to see the trigger pulled disconnected from the hand. But therein lies the fallacy of distance. The investigation is active and ongoing, and detectives urge anyone with information to come forward.