Police: Ex-boxing champ Forrest exchanged gunfire (AP)

By on July 27th, 2009

FILE - In this Jan. 25, 2002 file photo, Vernon Forrest of Augusta, Ga., poses at his weigh-in for the WBC World Welterweight Championship against Shane Mosley at Madison Square Garden in New York. Police say Forrest has been shot and killed in an apparent robbery. Atlanta Police Sgt. Lisa Keyes said in an e-mail Sunday, July 26, 2009 that Forrest may have been robbed and was shot "multiple times in the back" Saturday night in Atlanta.

Atlanta police say former boxing champion Vernon Forrest exchanged gunfire with robbery suspects before being shot to death. Lt. Keith Meadows said Monday that investigators believe between 20 and 24 shots were fired from two guns. Meadows says police recovered Forrest's gun and that one shell casing belonging to that gun was recovered.

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