Crime & Safety

Woman Killed in Friday's Midtown Shooting is Identified

Brittney Watts was a Decatur resident and UGA graduate

The woman who was fatally shot Friday in a Midtown parking deck has been identified as 26-year old Brittney Watts, according to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.

Watts was a Decatur resident and graduate of the University of Georgia, the AJC reported.

Police say Nkosi Thandiwe, 22, shot Watts and two other women Friday in a lunch-time shooting in the parking deck on Crescent Avenue and 14th Street. The two other women were wounded and taken to Grady Hospital.

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 late Friday afternoon and charged him with one count of murder and two counts of aggravated assault. He was a security guard at The Proscenium building at Peachtree and 14th, just across the street from the parking deck.

Thandiwe "waived his rights to appear before a Fulton County magistrate" on Saturday, according to the AJC.

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His next court appearance is scheduled for July 29 at the Fulton County Courthouse in downtown Atlanta.


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