Crime & Public Safety
1 killed in shooting at SW Atlanta shopping plaza
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Credit: Ben Hendren for The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
An Atlanta police officer secures a homicide scene at the intersection of Martin Luther King Jr. and Hamilton E. Holmes drives late Tuesday night.
Updated April 20, 2023
A transgender woman was fatally shot at a shopping plaza in the Harland Terrace neighborhood of southwest Atlanta late Tuesday night, according to authorities.
Atlanta police said officers found the victim with a gunshot wound at the Holmes Plaza on Martin Luther King Jr. Drive shortly before 11 p.m. She was pronounced dead at the scene.
Friends identified the victim as 35-year-old Koko Da Doll, a prominent transgender woman who was featured in an award-winning documentary, “Kokomo City,” which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in January.
No other details have been released about the circumstances of the shooting.
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