Multiple roads on the west side of Atlanta were closed for hours early Tuesday morning as a SWAT situation unfolded a few blocks from where a man was shot to death the night before during a robbery, police said.
Just hours after the shooting, Atlanta police SWAT teams swarmed a home in the area of Joseph E. Lowery Boulevard just south of Martin Luther King Jr. Drive in the Ashview Heights neighborhood. Those roads, along with Washington Place and New Castle Street, were closed overnight until around 7 a.m. Booker T. Washington High School is just a couple of blocks away.
Officials told Channel 2 Action News that SWAT teams were at the home serving a search warrant in connection to the fatal shooting Monday night.
No one was taken into custody.
Police said they got a call just before 9 p.m. Monday about a person shot on Mitchell Street, which is just across from where the SWAT situation unfolded.
When officers arrived, they found the victim with gunshot wounds, and he was pronounced dead at the scene. He was later identified by police as 44-year-old Samuel Harris, also known as “JR.”