Man, 61, fatally shot in NW Atlanta’s Carver Hills

A 61-year-old man was fatally shot in a northwest Atlanta neighborhood late Saturday night, according to police.

Atlanta officers got a call about a shooting in the 2100 block of Ajax Drive in the Carver Hills neighborhood shortly after 10:30 p.m. When they arrived, they found the victim with a gunshot wound. He was declared dead at the scene.

The man was identified as John Hodges by the Fulton County Medical Examiner’s Office.