ATLANTA – A 53-year-old barber has been killed in a workplace shooting at a shooting center in southwest Atlanta. According to the Atlanta Police Department, two barbers got into a dispute over a customer and one pulled out a gun and shot the other. It happened at a barbershop along Carmia Drive at the popular Camp Creek Marketplace.

Those who have met the barbers are simply amazed by this result. The barber who did the shooting hit an officer and surrendered. “To find out it was at the hands of another barber just blew my mind,” said Rohalia Knight, who added she still can’t believe her barber was shot and killed. by a 39-year-old co-worker at the barber shop in the Publix Plaza on Carmia Drive.

Knight had a meeting Thursday afternoon with the man she described as gentle, kind and a devoted father of five. “He loved his kids; we talked about them all the time. I talked to him just yesterday and today to find out that he passed away is just shocking,” she said.

Atlanta police say when they arrived on the scene, the shooter surrendered to deputies almost immediately. “One of the parties involved flagged down a sheriff’s deputy and surrendered,” said Capt. Jeff Childers of the Atlanta Police Department. “They had an escalating dispute over a client,” the captain added.

“It’s sad. It’s very sad. My friends. We work together every day,” said Fatima Mensch, who works right next to the barber shop. She said she heard the gunshots just after 10 a.m. and was startled. “I heard something like a gunshot,” she said. “It was so shocking because I liked the boys; they were so nice.”

The name of the arrested man has not been released.