Two people and a gunman were killed Saturday afternoon in a shooting in Atlanta’s West End neighborhood, police said.
The deadly encounter happened around 1:25 p.m. in the 600 block of Evans Street, which is across the street from the Mall West End. According to an incident report from Atlanta police, 38-year-old Jarvis Scott approached 17-year-old Derrion Johnson and 20-year-old Jakobi Maddox and began to fire at them.
Johnson returned fire and fatally shot the suspect, police added. All three were struck in the torso and pronounced dead.
Scott was the “primary aggressor,” the report stated, and his death will be classified as a “felon killed by private citizen.”
“The preliminary investigation indicates this was a targeted shooting,” police confirmed.
A motive for the shooting is still unclear. Johnson and Maddox were acquaintances, while their relationship to Scott was listed as “unknown” in the report.
Kiwii Ashmeade said Maddox, her nephew, was a father of a 1-year-old, according to Channel 2 Action News.
“Unfortunately, the streets got him first,” Ashmeade told the news station. “Now, we have to watch this beautiful baby boy grow up without a father.”
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