SOUTH FULTON COUNTY, Ga. — Police are investigating after a woman was found attached to a tree near a Walmart early Monday morning.
Police are at a very active scene at a Walmart on Old National Highway and Flat Shoals Road in South Fulton. We’re heading to the scene. 📸-@wsbtv video journalist Buzz Daley pic.twitter.com/jPhHGX7f8q
— Rikki Klaus (@RikkiKlaus) May 14, 2018
BREAKING—This is truly disturbing. A Channel 2 photographer first on the scene saw a person’s body attached to a tree at a South Fulton Walmart parking lot. The medical examiner’s office is here. pic.twitter.com/zRuU8RSlJs
— Rikki Klaus (@RikkiKlaus) May 14, 2018
There was a heavy police presence at the Walmart on Old National Highway in south Fulton County.
Channel 2 Action News saw South Fulton police patrol cars near a wooded area.
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Channel 2's Rikki Klaus spoke to a police spokesperson just before 6 a.m. who said they have ruled out foul play in the case.
We finally got ahold of the police spokeswoman after calling through the early morning hours, emailing. She said officers came out and found a woman hanging. She wouldn’t confirm whether it was a suicide when we asked but said there is NO foul play. pic.twitter.com/m8UBTkGUHT
— Rikki Klaus (@RikkiKlaus) May 14, 2018
At 10 a.m., South Fulton police told us the investigation was ruled a suicide.
I just got off the phone with the South Fulton detective authorized to share information with the media. She said an unidentified woman was found hanging from a tree overnight near a Walmart on Old National Highway. She said the investigation revealed the woman killed herself. pic.twitter.com/5NDNI3cpIt
— Rikki Klaus (@RikkiKlaus) May 14, 2018
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