ATLANTA — The Fulton County Medical Examiner’s Office has identified the body of a man who was found burning in a wooded area in northwest Atlanta on Dec. 13.
Officials confirmed the body belonged to 32-year-old Nicholas Williams.
On Dec. 13, someone called the police about a body lying in a wood area near a neighborhood on Old Gordon Road and Collier Road Drive.
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The Fulton County Medical Examiner determined that the cause of death in the case was a gunshot wound and that the manner of death was a homicide.
There is no information regarding how the body ended up at that location.
Channel 2′s Michael Seiden was first on the scene as homicide investigators worked to determine what happened.
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Channel 2 Action News has reached out to learn more about Williams’ death.
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