Atlanta police will not be seeking charges after one man was fatally shot and another was found with a stab wound in the same southwest Atlanta neighborhood.
Both incidents happened in the 2300 block of Martin Luther King Jr. Drive early Thursday morning, according to police. The victims have not been identified.
Officers were called to the area about 2:30 a.m. and found the shooting victim dead in the middle of the road. According to Channel 2 Action News, he was shot in the back of the head and was found with a box cutter.
Around the same time, officers were alerted to the stabbing. That victim was stable when he was taken to a hospital, police said.
Initially, investigators believed the two incidents were related.
“After additional investigation, (this) is now considered a felon killed by a citizen,” a police spokesman said Friday in a statement. “No charges are anticipated.”
The police department typically uses that language in cases where someone is killed while committing a felony act. No further information about the two incidents or their connection was released Friday.
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