Mechanic Dies Following Shooting Outside Car Repair Shop

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Editor’s note: this story has been updated.

Detectives with the Cherokee Sheriff’s Office are investigating the shooting death of a Cherokee County mechanic Wednesday evening following an argument with a Florida man.

Deputies responded to a call of a person shot around 5 p.m. Sept. 16 at a business located at 5733 Bells Ferry Road in unincorporated Acworth. This place rents out bays to individual mechanics to make car repairs, said Lt. Jay Baker with the sheriff’s office.

Deputies found a man, later identified as Doug Eriquezzo, 43, of Acworth, “lying in the parking lot of the business with two gunshot wounds,” Baker said.

The alleged shooter, 28-year-old Alexander Walkine of Tampa, Florida, was also located and taken into custody without incident.

Baker said witnesses informed deputies both Eriquezzo and Walkine were engaged in an argument when Walkine allegedly walked to his car, pulled out a handgun and fired two rounds towards Eriquezzo.

Walkine’s six-year-old child and five-month-old infant were also inside the car at the time of the shooting, Baker stated.

Eriquezzo was transported to WellStar Kennestone Hospital where he died from his injuries. Walkine has been charged with murder, possession of a firearm during the commission of a felony, cruelty to children in the third degree, aggravated battery and aggravated assault.

He’s being held without bond at the Cherokee County Adult Detention Center.

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Photo: Alexander Walkine. Credit: Cherokee Sheriff’s Office