Gwinnett County

Police search for shooter who killed man in apartment breezeway

GWINNETT COUNTY, Ga. — Police are looking for the gunman who shot and killed a man outside a Gwinnett County apartment.

It happened around 10 p.m. Monday in the breezeway, at bottom of the stairs on the lower level of a building at the KRC Reserve Apartment homes.

Officers found the victim outside the door to the ground level apartment, but the shooter was nowhere to be found.

Police said they think they can tell which direction the suspect away in, because they collected evidence out in the road and searched all through nearby bushes looking for something.

“So at this point, we’re just trying to figure out if we have any suspects potentially here on scene,” said Gwinnett County Sgt. Jake Smith.

A number of officers searching bushes at scene of a deadly shooting in Gwinnett County pic.twitter.com/Xwpwnc4AZk

The victim's family was overcome with emotion as they learned of their loved one’s murder.

A half-dozen officers, K-9, detectives and crime scene investigators combed through shrubs and ground cover outside the building for evidence.

The search, lasting more than an hour, turned up nothing.

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Police are hoping someone saw something that can help catch the killer.

“We have a lot of people out on balconies and stuff like that in this complex, so the potential for a lot of witnesses,” Smith said.