A 39-year old man is dead, and a woman is wounded after after a shooting inside a Ferris Branch apartment Monday afternoon.
Police say that responders to a 911 active shooter call found a woman bleeding in the parking lot of the complex, near Whitehurst and I-635, with a gunshot wound to the leg. She directed officers to her unit, where they found the body of Jason Ali Edwards, dead from gunfire.
“A canvass of the area and witnesses interviewed stated that a silver four-door vehicle was seen leaving the complex after the shooting,” according to a police statement. “The witnesses stated that a black male wearing a black and red jacket was seen leaving the apartment and entering the silver vehicle.”
Homicide detectives are investigating the capital murder case, and the woman was taken to Presbyterian Hospital with non life-threatening injuries.