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Man shot dead at southwest Atlanta apartment complex, police say

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ATLANTA — A man was killed in a shooting at an apartment complex in southwest Atlanta's Fairburn Mays neighborhood Friday afternoon, police said.

Atlanta Police said they found the man dead at 751 Fairburn Rd. SW, which is the location of the Villas at Princeton Lakes apartment complex just after 2:30 p.m.

APD said they found the man outside the leasing office with a gunshot wound. When EMS arrived to the scene, they pronounced him dead.

Initial investigation by police shows that there was a physical altercation between the victim and the suspect which led to one man being shot dead. When officers got there, the suspect had already left the scene.

The apartment complex is just over a mile and a half away from Benjamin E. Mays High School and is just down the road from the Walmart on Research Center Drive.

The details about the shooting remain limited at this time.

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