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Two killed in shooting at Atlanta shopping mall

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ATLANTA - Police say the shooting deaths of two people at a shopping mall in the Buckhead area of Atlanta apparently were drug related. <br> <br> Twenty-year-old Jonathan Rice and 19-year-old Stephen Strickland, both of Marietta, were shot Thursday night in a parking deck of the Phipps Plaza. Both died at the scene. <br> <br> Police spokesman John Quigley said the shooting occurred outside a Saks Fifth Avenue store shortly before 9 p.m. <br> <br> Sergeant Louie Torres said at the scene, ``It appears to be drug related.&#39;&#39; <br> <br> Torres said one of the victims was found in the parking lot dead of multiple gunshot wounds. He said the other was in the vestibule of the Saks store, shot once.
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