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Beer Delivery Man Murdered
(WSB Radio) Atlanta police are hunting for the gunman who shot and killed a beer delivery man in broad daylight.
The worker was shot on Monday afternoon, while making a delivery at the BP station at the corner of Hill Street and Memorial Drive, not far from the state capitol.
"We haven't had any shootings in this area in quite some time," says APD homicide Lieutenant Keith Meadows. "It hadn't been an area that's been problematical for us."
Meadows says the suspect got into a fight with the victim when he tried to rob him and later shot the man.
The incident was caught on surveillance tape, and Meadows says the video allows police to rule out certain suspects.
"He has some rather nice clothing on and he was clean cut," Meadows says, "so there's nothing to suggest he was a homeless person."
Meadows says police are hoping the timing of the shooting will help solve the crime.
"It happened right in broad daylight," he says, "and we have a number of witnesses who saw the actual shooting itself, so we're in the process of questioning them."
What others are saying
- beer man murderedI pray am praying for the victims family and hope they find closure very soon.
- No DescriptionI did not assume it was a "black" man. The report does not say if the gunman was white or black. Why is someone making this a racial thing when it clearly is not. It will come out later if the gunman was white, black, hispanic, oriental or whatever. Grow up!
- Guy in Bluehttp://www.myfoxatlanta.com/myfox/pages/News/Detail?contentId=7885527&version=2&locale=EN-US&layoutCode=TSTY&pageId=3.1.1
- Beer Delivery Man MurderedOnce again, NO description of the race of the murderer. No real description of his clothing either, other than that they were "nice". We don't even know the approximate age of the murderer.
What are we left with? We must assume that the perpetrator is, once again, a black male.
And, what about the victim? White or black?
WAY TO GO ATLANTA MEDIA POSING AS JOURNALISTS!!!
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