The 3-year-old girl, her face covered, was trembling when her grandmother reached the MARTA bus stop on Donald Lee Hollowell Parkway.
"She said, 'My daddy just got shot,'" Veronica Tuggle, the girl's grandmother, told Channel 2 Action News. "Imagine: A 3-year-old. A 3-year-old?"
Atlanta police Wednesday were searching for the person who fatally shot the man, identified by the Fulton County Medical Examiner’s office as 31-year-old Dantavious Chatman, as he waited at the northwest Atlanta bus stop with his toddler daughter.
Chatman’s family told Channel 2 he never rides the bus. However, he tried to catch it Tuesday night after no one would give him a ride to take his daughter, Dakayla, back to her mother.
He was at the stop in the 2400 block of Donald Lee Hollowell Parkway about 11:30 p.m. when someone got out of a car, shot him several times, got back into the car and drove away. Dakayla was not injured in the shooting.
Chatman was taken to Grady Memorial Hospital, where he later died, Atlanta police spokeswoman Kim Jones told The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
Police have not released a motive for the shooting.
“What kind of animal would do this in front of a 3-year-old baby?” Tuggle asked. “Please tell me. I want to know why. Why did this young man kill my son in front of a 3-year-old? In front of his 3-year-old.”
