Invasion Ended With Fatal Shooting At Student Apartments: Witness

ATLANTA — One man is dead and another in custody after an apparent intruder-related fatal shooting late Wednesday night at a Midtown student apartment building, Atlanta Police said.

Police were called to an apartment unit at the building at the Mark student apartments at 955 Spring Street around 11:35 p.m., police said.

Witnesses calling 9-1-1 to report the incident described an abrupt entrance to one of the 27th-floor apartments, as many as five gunshots, then someone running away from the scene.

“I think one of our apartment neighbors just got broken into, and there were gunshots that went off,” the first caller told the emergency dispatcher in one of three recordings released by Atlanta Police. “He confirmed that … someone kicked his door down and someone … either he or whoever was in his house let off a few shots.”

A second caller said she heard “four or five shots in a row” that woke her from her sleep in a nearby apartment on the same floor.

A third caller told an operator, “we heard a gunshot, and then we heard somebody run.”

Officers arrived to find one man shot to death.

“The shooter was identified and he is cooperating with the investigation,” an Atlanta Police spokesperson said in a statement.

Homicide detectives are working to determine the circumstances surrounding the incident.

The investigation is ongoing.