An early-morning shooting in southeast Atlanta that left two men dead apparently stemmed from a drug deal gone bad, homicide detectives said Tuesday afternoon.
Officers responding to a 1 a.m. report of a person dead along East Confederate Avenue near Woodland Avenue found one man behind the Woodland Hills Baptist Church, dead of a gunshot wound, Atlanta police Lt. Keith Meadows said.
"During the preliminary stages of the investigation, they found a blood trail that led them to the house at 1075 East Confederate Ave., and while they were there, they looked inside and found another victim," Meadows said.
He said witnesses interviewed later reported hearing gunshots and breaking glass, and seeing one of the men stumble from the house before collapsing behind the church next door.
Meadows said detectives initially thought that one of the men had just rented the house and was moving in from Alabama. But about 10 a.m., the renter was found about two miles away, stuffed in the trunk of a car parked at the intersection of Hill and Logan streets.
"A passerby may have heard him inside the trunk of the car and let him out of the trunk," Meadows said. "When uniformed officers arrived, he kind of explained to them exactly what happened."
The man, whose name has not been released, "admits that it was part of a drug deal that had actually gone bad," Meadows said. "He was scheduled to meet the other individuals that were involved in the drug deal, and I guess things kind of went awry and they ended up killing the two that were inside the house and putting him in the trunk of the car," Meadows said.
Investigators have not determined the identities of the dead men, who were both in their late to mid-20s. Meadows said the renter only knew the men by their nicknames.
The GBI was called in to help process a crime scene that Meadows described as "very involved."
Meadows characterized the area where the shooting occurred as an "upscale" neighborhood."
The residents have done a great job of bringing the area back, and it's unusual for us to have this particular sort of crime down in this area," .
http://www.ajc.com/metro/content/metro/atlanta/stories/2008/05/20/twodead_0521.html
Yes, I heard the shots. Yes, they interviewed me.
The early reports said it was a 'home invasion'. I told the detectives that was BS last night. Even I could tell a drug deal gone wrong...
and what's up with all the detectives wearing the brim hats and zoot suits? I don't trust a 'detective' that dresses like that.
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seriously? those two are cops, please inform them that 'california is the place they oughta be'
what a couple of ass bandits
something wierd about the South..all the 'detectives' think they need to dress like that because every time there's a murder, the news crews come out...
My Mom never made it to Detective, but she always found my weed. She told me the best detectives dressed like anybody else. She would have called those 2 'clowns':-0
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