ATLANTA — Witnesses say two men were gunned down early Saturday morning over a TV.
Witnesses told Channel 2's Rebecca Lindstrom that Josefice Rogers and Willie Jones were trying to get out of a music studio on Northside Drive when a group of men pulled up in a tan Tahoe or Suburban, wielding guns and demanding money.
In the end, they said the two men died over a TV.
Phyllis Welch isn't sure how much she wants to know about the moments surrounding her only son's death.
"It's not going to bring my son back and the more details they try to give me about how it happened, why, it's what brings the emotions. So the less I know right now the better because I'm trying to make funeral arrangements," Welch said.
The last pictures she has of her son, Joe Rogers, are from a year ago at her sister's funeral.
"It's crazy. People these days need to wake up. It's crazy. You're robbing for what?" asked Denise Cook, who was a friend of Rogers.
Early Saturday morning, friends gathered at the music studio. They said the men would wash cars at the lot by day and record their music at night.
"I don't even think it's real right now. It can't be real," Gregory Pitts said.
He said he heard the gunfire on his way back from a beer run and said he found Rogers and Jones on the ground, shot several times in the legs and chest.
Pitts said he can't help but feel a sense of guilt to be alive.
"If I didn't stop to get that beer, I'd be right with them," Pitts said.
Another man was injured in the shooting.
He's in critical condition at Grady Memorial Hospital.
Police have not said whether the man is a victim or suspect, but so far no arrests have been made.
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