ATLANTA — Atlanta police are investigating a shooting in Summerhill neighborhood on Monday morning.
Officers were called to a shooting off Ormond Street and Hank Aaron Drive around 10:45 a.m. NewsChopper 2 flew over the scene as police gathered evidence on Channel 2 Action News at Noon.
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Police confirmed that one person died in the shooting and a second victim was transported. Police aren’t releasing many details only that some kind of argument led to shots fired.
Demetrius Lester identified the man who died as his brother, 47-year-old DaJuan Jackson.
“Stop the violence. Life is short,” Lester told Channel 2′s Richard Elliot. “My brother, he had a good heart.
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Lester told Elliot that Jackson that his brother had his issues including a time when he was homeless. But he just moved back to southeast Atlanta to be closer to his family.
“I just spent Christmas Day and had a big dinner with my brother for the first time,” he said.
With his brother’s death on MLK Day, Lester begged people to listen to Dr. King’s philosophy of non-violence.
“We’re losing innocent lives around here and everything can be solved better than what the action showed, you know, that people end up getting killed out here on the streets.”
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