Officials said Friday they are charging a homeless man they said was a “straw purchaser” of the handgun used in the DeKalb County shooting spree that killed two women and injured a man.
The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco Firearms and Explosives traced the weapon back to a Feb. 20 purchase from a gun store in Atlanta, according to documents obtained by Channel 2 Investigative Reporter Mark Winne.
A straw purchase is when someone buys a gun for another person, often someone who is not legally allowed to own a weapon…