{"id":23500,"date":"2021-02-14T17:37:50","date_gmt":"2021-02-14T22:37:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thegeorgiasun.com\/?p=23500"},"modified":"2021-02-18T17:47:42","modified_gmt":"2021-02-18T22:47:42","slug":"police-investigate-fatal-shooting-in-peachtree-corners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/?p=23500","title":{"rendered":"Police investigate fatal shooting in Peachtree Corners"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>PEACHTREE CORNERS &#8212; The Gwinnett County Police Department is investigating a homicide that took place at the front entrance of a local apartment complex.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Officers were dispatched to a \u201cperson shot\u201d call at 1700 Hunters Ridge Lane in Peachtree Corners at 11:30 a.m. When officers arrived, they found a black male laying on the ground with at least one gunshot wound.\u00a0 <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The man was taken to a local hospital where he later died.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A nearby resident reported that his home was penetrated by one of the gunshots. No one inside this apartment was injured.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The suspect in this case is unknown. The name of the victim is being withheld pending next-of-kin notification.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Police are asking residents in this apartment complex to report any suspicious activity on any personally owned surveillance cameras.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If anyone has any information to share in this case, contact detectives at\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"tel:7705135300\" target=\"_blank\">770-513-5300<\/a>.\u00a0 To remain anonymous, tipsters can contact Crime Stoppers at 404-577-TIPS (8477) or visit\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.atlantapolicefoundation.org\/programs\/crime-stoppers\/\">www.stopcrimeATL.com<\/a>. Crime Stoppers tipsters can receive a cash reward for information leading to an arrest and indictment in this case. The case number\u00a0is 21-011906.<\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PEACHTREE CORNERS &#8212; The Gwinnett County Police Department is investigating a homicide that took place at the front entrance of a local apartment complex.\u00a0\u00a0 Officers were dispatched to a \u201cperson shot\u201d call at 1700 Hunters Ridge Lane in Peachtree Corners at 11:30 a.m. When officers arrived, they found a black male laying on the ground [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23501,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"newspack_featured_image_position":"","newspack_post_subtitle":"","newspack_article_summary_title":"Overview:","newspack_article_summary":"","newspack_hide_updated_date":false,"newspack_show_updated_date":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[8498,9486,8473,8672,8474,9485],"class_list":["post-23500","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-crime","tag-gwinnett-county","tag-latest","tag-media","tag-peachtree-corners","tag-sun","tag-top","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23500","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23500"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23500\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23501"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}