Friday, April 14, 2006

Iraq War Vet Shot, Killed

Atlanta police investigators found at least 13 shell casings from an assault rifle as they searched for clues in the early morning murder of an Iraqi war vet and military reservist Thursday. Police said the shots were likely fired from the passenger side window of another car whose driver was chasing the victim, 24-year-old Ryan Alexander Harmon.

As Harmon sped away after suffering two gunshot wounds to the back, his SUV slammed into a concrete pillar on Spring Street near I-20 in Atlanta about 1 a.m. Witnesses who ran to his side quickly realized that victim, who was slumped over the wheel, had been shot, police said. When emergency crews arrived on the scene, they discovered that Harmon had suffered the gunshot wounds to his back.

Police investigators later determined that the shooting of Harmon took place on Windsor Street in Downtown Atlanta, about 300 yards from where his 2002 Tahoe wrecked. Police found six bullet holes in the back of the vehicle.
To have survived a year in Iraq, to die in Atlanta.
Motive - still unknown.
 

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