After a bullet struck a woman inside a car on Piedmont Avenue near Piedmont Park early Monday morning, the people with her drove her about 17 minutes away to Emory Hospital in DeKalb County, police said.
Update: Authorities say Atlanta businesswoman was shot in the back
Local business executive Diane McIver, the wife of well-known labor and employment attorney C.L. "Tex" McIver, died in surgery at 12:49 a.m. Monday.
“What we know is that Ms. McIver was riding in a car with people she knew near 1073 Piedmont Ave.,” Atlanta police spokeswoman Kim Jones said Tuesday. “A firearm was discharged inside the vehicle.”
Detectives are investigating the circumstances of the shooting and have not named the other people in the car.
Diane McIver was president of Corey Airport Services, a marketing company based in Atlanta known for its 300-foot billboard near the Downtown Connector and Martin Luther King Jr. Drive.
Tex McIver, a partner at Atlanta-based Fisher Phillips, previously served on the State Board of Elections. He is the only family the 63-year-old marketing executive had in the area, one of her employees said.
US Enterprises, Inc. General Counsel Ken Rickert said Diane McIver worked with Corey Airport Services for 43 years. The job was likely the only one she held after graduating from Georgia State University.
Rickert said McIver lived with her husband in Buckhead, near Lenox Square.
Rickert said he met McIver 25 years ago, when she hired him.
“She was a dynamic individual,” Rickert said. “A great, successful executive who is going to be missed by everybody over here.”
Police have not said if charges are expected.
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