In Northwest Atlanta, officers responded to a reported shooting at JJ’s Food Mart around 7:20 p.m. yesterday. According to a press release from the Atlanta Police Department, they secured a crime scene a few streets away at 493 Cairo St NW, where the victim had already been transported to Grady Hospital with a gunshot wound to the cheek.
The incident appears to have stemmed from an altercation between a male suspect and the female victim at the 507 Joseph E Lowery Blvd location, the investigation is active, investigators piecing together a mosaic of events that led to the shooting, preliminary findings hint at a dispute gone tragically awry.
The authorities have not yet provided further details on the suspect or what the dispute was about, but their search continues as they strive to understand the full scope of the incident.
