ATLANTA — GBI has released the name of the suspect shot and killed by Atlanta police near a Chick-fil-A on the northwest side of the city.
Two police officers were dispatched around 8:24 p.m. to 826 Martin Luther King Jr. Dr. SW., where they heard gunfire. Officers said they saw a man, now identified as 35-year-old Willie Williams, shooting at another man.
That's when the two APD officers shot at the man with the gun. The department said he died at the scene.
Police said he was shot less than a quarter-of-a-mile from the Clark Atlanta University campus, just down the street from CAU Panther Stadium. An employee at the Chick-fil-A told 11Alive's Cody Alcorn that the shooting appeared to happen in the street.
The department did not provide any further information on the other man involved and said the Georgia Bureau of Investigation would be leading the case.
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