Atlanta police are investigating a fatal shooting at a home in the Adamsville neighborhood on Atlanta’s west side Friday afternoon.
Officers responded to a residence in the 200 block of Argus Circle around 5:30 p.m. and found a man wounded, according to police. The victim was taken to Grady Memorial Hospital’s Marcus Trauma and Emergency Center, where he later died, officials said.
The Fulton County Medical Examiner’s Office identified the man as 24-year-old Qwantavius Harris.
Homicide detectives were subsequently called to the shooting scene to investigate. There was no suspect information.
The shooting happened less than two miles north of the Fairburn Townhouses, where Atlanta SWAT officers were involved in a standoff with a gunman who barricaded himself in the apartment complex Friday afternoon, according to police.
There were no indications that the two incidents were connected.
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