South Fulton County

Postal worker driving down dirt road finds man shot multiple times

A postal worker made an awful discovery while delivering mail on Monday. while driving down a back road in South Fulton, she found the body of a man who had been shot multiple times.

It happened on Chattahoochee Drive off Campbellton Road.

A postal supervisor told Channel 2's Tom Jones the mail carrier who found the body while on her route was "shaken up."

"She just rode up on it. There's nothing there. She just saw the actual body," Michelle Cooper with USPS said.

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Officers say someone shot the man in his 50s and left him on the side of the road.

NewsChopper 2 was above the scene and shot video of the postal truck near the body.
It was found deep in the woods on a long winding road.

"There's only one other home down there she was delivering a package to," Cooper said.

The postal supervisor said it appeared the body had been here for some time. They are ready for police to wrap up their on scene investigation so they can get the postal truck since it still has mail inside that needs to be delivered.