Police say Georgia Tech student’s shooting death was ‘targeted act’

Atlanta Police circulated surveillance footage of a workable suspect in the shooting death of a Georgia Tech attendee on May at an off-campus apartment building Courtesy APD The shooting death of a Georgia Tech aspirant on May was a targeted act according to the Atlanta Police Department During a Wednesday press conference APD commented the scholar identified as -year-old Akash Banerjee by the Fulton County Clinical Examiner s Office was shot in the head on the ninth floor of The Connector novice apartments at Spring St in Midtown He was transported to Grady Hospital where he died on Tuesday We re at a point where we believe this was a targeted act APD Homicide Commander Andrew Smith explained during the press conference APD distributed surveillance video showing a suspect walking down the ninth-floor hallway of the apartment building with what appears to be a gun in his pocket around minutes before the shooting Smith announced the suspected shooter had been to the building previously looking for Banerjee Smith announced Banerjee was shot in the ninth-floor hallway following an altercation with the suspect The Connector has key card access and Smith stated it was unknown how the shooter gained access to the building Smith announced investigators were still trying to determine the connection between the suspect and Banerjee who had a criminal history Smith declined to elaborate on Banerjee s criminal record and if that might be what led to the shooting The post Police say Georgia Tech attendee s shooting death was targeted act appeared first on Rough Draft Atlanta