2 people shot outside Atlanta food mart

ATLANTA — Police are investigating a deadly shooting in southwest Atlanta early Monday morning.

Officers found two victims at locations less than a mile apart.

Police told Channel 2's Audrey Washington the victims were in two separate cars when a third person started shooting outside a discount food mart in the 3000 block of Martin Luther King Jr. Drive.

That shooter took off.

Lt. Ricardo Vazquez told Washington that "there was a third person involved and we don't know who he is."

One victim was found in a car in the parking lot and died on the way to Grady Memorial Hospital, according to officials.

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Authorities have identified the deceased victim as Tory Lambert, 39.

Lambert's family says he was the life of the family and had five children, with the youngest just 9 months old.

"He was at the wrong place at the wrong time," said a family member. "He would've done anything for anyone."

The second victim was shot several times but managed to drive farther down Martin Luther King Jr. Drive before crashing.

He was taken to the hospital and was listed as stable.

“Very early in the investigation… We don’t know if a dispute led up to this shooting incident,” said Vazquez. "We’re in the process of investigating that.”

Detectives are trying to get more information from the surviving victim.

The victim's family was too upset to speak on camera but they said there was some dispute at another nearby location before the gunfire erupted at the food mart. They believe that might be connected to this homicide.

"This was just so uncalled-for, his life to be taken over something as minute as somebody else's argument," said a family member.

Family members say Lambert was the son of Violet Lambert, who was killed in a domestic dispute in a Cobb County mall parking lot in 2014.

Now the family has to deal with yet another act of senseless violence that ended in tragedy.

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