A man was found dead with gunshot wounds in the parking lot of the Trap Music Museum in northwest Atlanta on Sunday night, authorities said.
According to Atlanta police, officers arrived at the museum on Travis Street around 8 p.m. and found a man in the parking lot who had been shot multiple times. He was pronounced dead at the scene. He was identified as 59-year-old Andrew Pierce by the Fulton County Medical Examiner’s Office.
According to Channel 2 Action News, investigators said an argument led to the shooting.
“The male arrived at the parking lot, engaged in a physical dispute with another male, that male brandished a firearm, shooting and killing (the man),” Atlanta police Lt. Andrew Smith told Channel 2.
Pierce is believed to have worked to keep the parking lot clean and helped out with parking, Channel 2 reported.
It was the second time a man has been shot and killed near the museum this year. In February, Christopher Campbell, 38, was shot multiple times in a parking lot on the same block of Travis Street.
Similar to Sunday’s shooting, Campbell’s death was preceded by a verbal dispute, officials said. Atlanta police arrested Jacquez Whitfield, 27, and charged him with murder, aggravated assault and possession of a firearm during the commission of a felony in Campbell’s death.
In May 2021, three men and a woman were taken to hospitals after being shot in a parking lot near the museum. Atlanta police determined the victims were leaving the Trap Music Museum and going to their cars when someone in a black Dodge Charger began shooting.
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