Young mom gunned down on Mother s Day weekend trying to help friend, police say
By Aungelique Proctor
A woman trying to help a friend was fatally shot during a domestic dispute, police say.
SOUTH FULTON, Ga. - South Fulton police are looking for a man who they say shot and killed a young mother when she tried to help a friend.
Family members and South Fulton Police tell us 23-year-old Selena Dukes went to the old Sandtown Vista Apartments, now The Slate, to help a friend. They were picking up the friend s baby from the father when police say the parents got in an argument.
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