ATLANTA — An 18-year-old was killed after being shot in the back Wednesday morning, according to police.
The Fulton County Medical Examiner confirms 18-year-old Joshua Torrance was shot and killed Wednesday. The shooting happened at 10:46 a.m. at 2423 Martin Luther King Jr. Dr. where police found the him with a gunshot wound.
Torrance was transported to Grady Hospital where he later died.
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At the scene, family told 11Alive Torrance had just graduated and was planning to attend Albany State University in the fall to study engineering. They were crushed that his bright future was cut short.
"For them to come with a so-called argument. To try to initiate something to take a young man's life that's trying to better himself, it's not right, and we've gotta come up with a better system," said Torrance's uncle, Brian Keith Williams.
While police don't have any suspects in custody at right now, they have released videos of a person of interest.
It has been a deadly week for teenagers.
On Tuesday, two teenagers were shot and killed and another suffered a gunshot wound to his face in a South Fulton neighborhood. The two who died were 16 and 19 years old and the victim who suffered a wound to the face was 15.
Grant Antonio Payton, the 16-year-old victim, was set to start a job at Chick-fil-A before his life was cut tragically short, according to his mother.
Police are still investigating this incident and also have no suspects in custody at this time.
