A man being sought by authorities shot and killed himself late Friday morning in south DeKalb County, police said.
The incident shut down a major thoroughfare and prompted a lockdown at a nearby private school.
The shooting happened around 10 a.m. on Flat Shoals Road near Panthersville Road.
Police would not identify the man and refused to say why he was being sought.
“We had a multiagency law enforcement task force that was trying to apprehend a wanted suspect,” DeKalb police Capt. F.P. Braun told The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
Braun said that after a brief car chase ended in a wreck on Flat Shoals, “it appears that the suspect shot himself and is deceased.”
Officials at the nearby New Life Christian Academy of Achievers on Flat Shoals Road locked down the campus.
An email sent to New Life parents reported that “there has been an incident that has occurred in front of our campus.”
The email, sent at 10:19 a.m., went on to say that DeKalb police officers and sheriff’s deputies were on the scene, and that all was well at the school.
Flat Shoals Road remained shut down for a number of hours after the shooting.
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