A brief encounter in a restaurant parking lot turned deadly after police say a man was punched by a stranger and died.
Riverdale officers responded around 9 p.m. on June 9 to a report of a person down outside a restaurant in the 6300 block of Georgia Highway 85. When they arrived, they found Charles Chandler lying unresponsive in the parking lot.
According to police, Chandler had been involved in an encounter with an unknown man moments earlier. During that interaction, police say the suspect punched Chandler, causing him to fall and hit his head on the concrete.
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The suspect then drove away from the scene in a maroon Dodge Challenger, leaving Chandler unconscious, police said…