Crime & Safety
Possible Road-Rage Shooting Kills DeKalb Man
The victim's wife and children were in the car with him at the time of the shooting, according to police.
DECATUR, GA — A DeKalb County man was shot and killed Thursday morning in what police believe may have been a case of road rage.
Police Thursday morning were on the scene of the shooting on Flat Shoals Road, near the entrance of the Brighton Village subdivision. The man's body was found in a car there after being shot at at least three times, police said.
Police said the shooting happened at about 4 a.m. and that the victim's two children were with him in the car along with two adults, one of them his wife. No one else was injured, DeKalb County Police said.
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It was not clear Thursday morning whether the shooting was related to two early-morning shootings in Atlanta, in which drivers both described being attacked by a man in a silver SUV.
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