COLUMBUS, GA. (THECOUNT) — Tommy Jones has been identified as the Columbus teen found shot dead in a Walgreens parking lot Wednesday.

Jones, 19, of Columbus was pronounced dead of a gunshot wound at 6:54 p.m. in the emergency room of Piedmont Columbus Regional midtown campus, said Muscogee County Chief Deputy Coroner Freeman Worley.

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His body will be transported to the crime lab in Decatur for an autopsy on Friday.

A shooting in the Walgreens parking lot in Wynnton has left a Columbus teen dead just hours before Thanksgiving Day, authorities said Wednesday. source

Worley said Columbus police were called at 6:13 p.m. to the drug store parking lot at 2510 Wynnton Road. Jones was transported to the hospital where he died.

Anyone with information on the deadly incident should contact police at 911.