Police: Woman, killer dead after high-rise shootout in Atlanta

Authorities successful Georiga accidental a antheral fatally changeable a pistillate and past died during a shootout with officers astatine an Atlanta flat building.

The Associated Press reported constabulary were called retired to a luxury high-rise condo astatine astir 3:30 a.m. Wednesday for reports of an progressive shooter.

According to the Georgia Bureau of Investigation, erstwhile connected scene, officers determined the shots were coming from the 21st floor. As they approached the scene, they noticed a man, aboriginal identified arsenic 32-year-old Jarvis Jarrette, shooting from the balcony.

The bureau said Jarrette fired a firearm astatine responding officers, and astatine slightest 1 serviceman returned fire.

Once wrong the apartment, officers recovered a pistillate dormant inside,

Jarrette was recovered dormant connected the balcony, the bureau said successful a property release.

"The GBI probe is constricted to the usage of unit by the progressive officers," the bureau said successful the quality release. 

The bureau said homicide investigators with the Atlanta Police Department "are investigating the archetypal incident, the decease of a pistillate and related incidents."