Police: Officer witnesses gunfire in deadly QT shooting

DEKALB COUNTY, Ga. — Police are trying to determine what led to a deadly shooting at a gas station.

Chamblee police told Channel 2's Audrey Washington that an officer was getting gas at a QT station on Buford Highway in Chamblee on Thursday when he heard four or five gunshots and found a victim dead on the ground.

Police said a car drove away from the store and the officer followed, thinking that the person in the car might have been involved in the shooting.

When he realized that the driver had nothing to do with it, he came back to the scene, police said.

The victim has been identified as Andrew Spencer, 30.

“He was a great person. He always tried to make everybody laugh no matter what the situation,” Spencer’s fiancée, Danise Coicou, said.

Friends said Spencer worked at a warehouse in south Fulton County. His boss knew something was wrong when he didn’t show up for work Thursday.

“This is very odd. Andrew, if he’s running late, calls in,” Jahmar Baptiste said.

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Coicou said although Spencer worked at the warehouse, his real passion was music and he had just caught the attention of a big record company.

“Music was his life and that’s what brought him to his happy place, besides his mother,” she said.

Coicou said she is devastated by the loss, but knows her fiancé loved her.

“A couple of months ago, he told me, ‘If I was to pass away, I want you to know I lived real happy with you.’ And I said, ‘Why (are) you talking like that?’ He said, ‘I just want you to know because people don’t let you know how they live with you and later on you wonder if they were happy,’” she said.

Police are in the process of recovering video footage of the incident and have obtained still photos of the people believed to have been involved in the shooting.

Those people were last seen fleeing the area in a newer-model Maserati Quattroporte, possibly gray or green, police said.

Anyone with information is asked to contact Chamblee police at 770-986-5005 or 470-395-2413.

Video footage of the incident will be released when it becomes available.

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