>https://twitter.com/MailOnline/status/1485017204596817928
FTA: "US detectives have confirmed a young British scientist who was shot in the head while visiting his California-born girlfriend was hit by a stray bullet fired less than 300ft away.
Dr Matthew Willson, 31, was killed by a shot fired nearby early on Sunday morning — moments after being woken by the sound of ‘rapid gunfire’ as he slept alongside his 26-year-old partner Katherine Shephard in Atlanta, Georgia.
The astrophysicist, from leafy Chertsey in Surrey, had arrived in the US to stay with Miss Shephard just two days before he died in an apartment in the 3100 block of Clairmont Road to the northeast of the city.
US detectives are investigating as a homicide, but detectives said Dr Willson was not a target. Sergeant Jake Kissel from the Brookhaven Police Department said the fatal shooting appeared to be the result of ‘reckless discharge’ by random people."