A grandmother was killed and a man was injured after being shot in southeast Atlanta’s Lakewood Heights neighborhood Tuesday night, police said.
Officers were called to a Chevron gas station in the 1600 block of Lakewood Avenue around 10:50 p.m. and found the victims with gunshot wounds, according to an Atlanta police news release.
The man went to a hospital on his own while the woman was taken by ambulance, the news release states. The woman died shortly after. She was identified by the Fulton County Medical Examiner’s Office as 64-year-old Lashunder Edge.
Edge was walking into the store to cash a lottery ticket when she was struck by gunfire, Channel 2 Action News reported. At least four bullet holes were seen scattered across the gas station’s windows, the news station’s footage showed.
Police did not release any other details about the victims or what led up to the shooting.
Edge’s daughter-in-law Jessica Anderson told Channel 2 that Edge “was a good lady.”
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