“At this point, I simply don't know what the incident was that sparked this shooting,” Officer Chuck McPhilamy with the Marietta Police Department said.

Jones then went the hospital, where family members gathered.

“We just don't know what happened,” Gorman’s grandmother Patricia Sarter told Jones. “He got shot three times.”

Sarter said she has no idea who would want him dead.

“I can't wait to find out and I pray they find out,” Sarter told Jones.

What they do know is gun violence has claimed the life of another young black man.

“All these young folks with these guns and they are killing each other off. It's not very good,” grandfather James Sarter said.

Police say the gunman got into a white car with a spoiler on it and took off northbound on Bells Ferry Road.