UPDATE: College Baseball Player Jatonne Sterling Shot & Killed In Atlanta, Suspect Arrested
-- The Atlanta Police Department said Thursday it's arrested the suspected gunman in the case, identifying him as 25-year-oldAccording to APD deputy chiefand the suspect had known each other prior to Tuesday afternoon's incident, describing it as"not a random homicide."Hampton Jr. said Sterling got into a car with Holliman-Peoples, and the two proceeded to get into some kind of dispute that"escalated into gunfire."Hampton Jr.
College baseball player Jatonne Sterling, a member of the Clark Atlanta University team, was shot and killed on Tuesday. He was just 20 years old. The Atlanta Police Department said the tragic shooting happened less than a mile from CAU's campus in Georgia ... near a church. According to cops, officers responded to the scene at around 1:42 p.m. ... and found Sterling suffering from a gunshot wound. They said he was"not alert, conscious, or breathing and was pronounced deceased on the scene."CAU, an HBCU, and its athletics department mourned Sterling's death in a social media post, saying,"Gone too soon."A vigil is being held now at
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