SANDY SPRINGS, Ga. — Sandy Springs police are investigating a deadly shooting at an apartment complex.
Police identified a suspect as Derrick Jaden Washington. He was arrested faces murder and other charges, according to officials Wednesday.
Neighbors tell us what they saw happen LIVE on Channel 2 Action News starting at 4:00 p.m.
Officers were called to the 550 Northridge apartments on Northridge Pkwy off Roswell Road just before 8:30 p.m. Tuesday.
When they arrived, they found a man who had been shot in the parking lot. The victim, 29-year-old Lamont Tucker, died at the scene.
Witnesses told police the victim got into a confrontation with two men, and they shot him.
They are searching for Mason Washington, the first suspect’s brother, in connection with the shooting as well.
Investigators processed the scene during WSB Tonight at 11 p.m. before clearing it hours later during Channel 2 Action News This Morning starting at 4:30 a.m.
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Neighbors who live in the complex said they were alarmed to come home and find a police, SWAT and K-9 team searching all around the complex.
“They’re like no one in, no one out, we’re on lockdown,” one neighbor told Channel 2’s Steve Gehlbach. “Then I saw a bunch of police and guys with big guns going and looking in the woods, near a storage unit over there and had flashlights.”
Another neighbor who didn’t want to go on camera told Gehlbach that more than one suspect, including the shooter, tried to run at first. At least one suspect then went up the stairs to a second floor apartment and tried the door handle but couldn’t get inside.
Police have not identified any suspects.
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