1 dead, 1 injured after road rage shooting near GA Tech

ATLANTA — Atlanta police said at least one person is dead and another injured in a road rage incident near Georgia Tech.

Police said a driver got angry at another driver on Northside Drive near the intersection of Donald Lee Hollowell and shot at him.

That driver, identified only as a 28-year-old man, then crashed into two other cars at the intersection of Northside Drive and 10th Street.

The driver shot at another car before taking his own life, police said.

The victim, a 51-year-old man, was taken to the hospital. He also has not been identified. He sustained a gunshot wound to his arm.

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Channel 2′s Michael Seiden was at the scene Tuesday, where the crashed car was still in the intersection of Northside Drive and 10th Street.

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Seiden talked to witnesses who described the chaos that unfolded right around lunchtime.

“I just heard like tires screeching next to me, so I look over and the red car that’s in the middle, he turns, and he’s this close to my car,” one witness said.

Another witness said he tried to help the driver, who was already dead.

“I opened up the passenger window and pulled the airbag up and realized he had a pistol in his hand and his finger was still on the trigger,” that witness said.

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