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Man killed trying to enter wrong SW Atlanta apartment; alleged shooter in custody
Atlanta
Updated 7 hours ago
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The man, identified by the Fulton County Medical Examiner’s Office as Omarian Banks, was shot in the neck at the Retreat at Marketplace apartments in the 3300 block of Fairburn Road.
Crime scene tape blocks the breezeway at an apartment complex on Fairburn Road where a 19-year-old man was shot and killed Friday morning.
Photo: JOHN SPINK / JSPINK@AJC.COM
Atlanta police spokesman Officer Jarius Daugherty said Banks knocked on a door that he believed was his girlfriend’s apartment just before 12:30 a.m.
“Shortly after, the victim walked away from the door,” Daugherty said. “The resident of the apartment then went onto his balcony to confront the victim. A verbal exchange ensued between the two parties and, at some point, the resident produced a handgun and shot the victim.”
The alleged shooter, identified as 32-year-old Darryl Bynes, remained at the scene and was arrested. He was booked into the Fulton County Jail on a murder charge, police said.
Darryl Bynes
Photo: Fulton County Sheriff’s Office
Banks’ girlfriend, who asked not to be identified out of safety concerns, said the 19-year-old called her moments before he was killed and asked her to open the front door for him.
“He called me and he said open the door because he was getting a Lyft home, but when I opened the door I didn’t see him,” she said. “Then I hear one gunshot, and after that, I hear him yell, ‘I’m sorry, bro. I’m at the wrong house.’”
She said she then heard her neighbor tell her boyfriend, “Nah, (expletive), you’re not at the wrong house,” before firing two more times.
She ran downstairs to her boyfriend, who she said was lying in the grass.
“I turned him over and that’s when I seen the gunshot wound to his neck and blood all over him,” she said.
She said her boyfriend lived with her but may have been confused after getting dropped off in front of the wrong breezeway.
“He came to the wrong door,” she said. “It wasn’t self-defense.”
TEEN KILLED AT WRONG APARTMENT: Teen shot, killed after knocking on wrong apartment door, police say
Man killed trying to enter wrong SW Atlanta apartment; alleged shooter in custody
Atlanta
Updated 7 hours ago
By
- Chelsea Prince
- Shaddi Abusaid
- John Spink, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
The man, identified by the Fulton County Medical Examiner’s Office as Omarian Banks, was shot in the neck at the Retreat at Marketplace apartments in the 3300 block of Fairburn Road.
Crime scene tape blocks the breezeway at an apartment complex on Fairburn Road where a 19-year-old man was shot and killed Friday morning.
Photo: JOHN SPINK / JSPINK@AJC.COM
Atlanta police spokesman Officer Jarius Daugherty said Banks knocked on a door that he believed was his girlfriend’s apartment just before 12:30 a.m.
“Shortly after, the victim walked away from the door,” Daugherty said. “The resident of the apartment then went onto his balcony to confront the victim. A verbal exchange ensued between the two parties and, at some point, the resident produced a handgun and shot the victim.”
The alleged shooter, identified as 32-year-old Darryl Bynes, remained at the scene and was arrested. He was booked into the Fulton County Jail on a murder charge, police said.
Darryl Bynes
Photo: Fulton County Sheriff’s Office
Banks’ girlfriend, who asked not to be identified out of safety concerns, said the 19-year-old called her moments before he was killed and asked her to open the front door for him.
“He called me and he said open the door because he was getting a Lyft home, but when I opened the door I didn’t see him,” she said. “Then I hear one gunshot, and after that, I hear him yell, ‘I’m sorry, bro. I’m at the wrong house.’”
She said she then heard her neighbor tell her boyfriend, “Nah, (expletive), you’re not at the wrong house,” before firing two more times.
She ran downstairs to her boyfriend, who she said was lying in the grass.
“I turned him over and that’s when I seen the gunshot wound to his neck and blood all over him,” she said.
She said her boyfriend lived with her but may have been confused after getting dropped off in front of the wrong breezeway.
“He came to the wrong door,” she said. “It wasn’t self-defense.”
TEEN KILLED AT WRONG APARTMENT: Teen shot, killed after knocking on wrong apartment door, police say
Man killed trying to enter wrong SW Atlanta apartment; alleged shooter in custody
killed him for no fukking reason so tired of people getting killed for nothing.
