Updated: 1:06 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 24, 2009 | Posted: 10:53 a.m. Saturday, Jan. 24, 2009
ATLANTA —
Authorities said Adair Freeman, 19, was shot to death while running an errand to buy ice early Saturday morning.
Investigators said the teen was gunned down at about 2 a.m. in the Shell gas station parking lot at the corner of Spring and 14th streets.
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Police said the convenience store is located next door to Hot Beats Recording Studios, where the teen was working with his father.
Atlanta police told WSB-TV that the incident may have been a robbery attempt.
According to a MySpace page for Hot Beats Recording Studios, clients include a number of well-known artists ranging from Atlanta’s own Ludacris to Nelly, Lil Wayne and Matchbox Twenty.
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Police said they are working to obtain surveillance video from nearby businesses that may have captured the crime on tape.
Freeman would have turned 20 years old in February.