Police say the 34-year-old woman may have been shot before her vehicle was found on the interstate during Tuesday evening traffic.
ATLANTA, GA — A 34-year-old pregnant mother of two died after she was found shot on Interstate 75 near Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport during Tuesday evening rush hour, and investigators say the shooting may have happened at another location before her car was discovered.
Authorities identified the woman as Bianca Huntley. Atlanta police said officers were called to the northbound lanes of I-75 near North Central Avenue SW at about 6:15 p.m. on April 14 and found Huntley suffering from an apparent gunshot wound. She was taken to Grady Memorial Hospital in critical condition and later died. By Friday, police had not announced any arrest, named any suspect or said where the shooting first happened, leaving investigators with a case that began on one of the region’s busiest roads but may have started somewhere else.
The known timeline is brief but stark. According to the Atlanta Police Department, Zone 3 officers responded after a report of a person shot on I-75 northbound near North Central Avenue SW, a stretch of road close to the airport and the southern end of the Downtown Connector. When officers arrived, they found Huntley, 34, wounded inside or near the vehicle that had come to a stop on the interstate. Emergency crews rushed her to the hospital, where she later died. In a follow-up report, the Fulton County Medical Examiner’s Office identified her, and Atlanta News First reported that the office said Huntley was pregnant. Family members told local stations that Huntley was a mother of two and had been driving home from work when she was shot. Those details widened the sense of loss around the case, turning it from a traffic-side death investigation into the killing of a young mother whose family says she was in the middle of an ordinary trip home.
Investigators have released only a narrow set of confirmed facts. Police said their preliminary investigation indicates Huntley “may have sustained her injuries at a separate and currently unknown location,” a finding that shifts the focus away from the interstate shoulder alone and toward the possibility that her final drive was the last stage of a shooting that began elsewhere. WSB-TV reported that authorities have not released details about what led up to the shooting, and police had not publicly described a motive, a sequence of events before the gunfire or whether anyone else had been inside the vehicle. Atlanta News First reported that investigators were focusing on a white SUV found on the interstate, but police had not publicly explained how that vehicle figured into the case beyond the scene itself. By Friday, the homicide investigation remained open, and police had not said whether they believed Huntley knew the shooter or whether the attack was targeted or random. Those unanswered questions now define the early stage of the case as much as the facts already confirmed.
The location added another layer of urgency. Interstate 75 near the airport carries heavy traffic in and out of Atlanta, especially in the late afternoon and early evening. A shooting tied to that corridor can create both a crime scene and a transportation disruption, even when the violence may have started elsewhere. In this case, television crews reported from the scene as Huntley’s car was towed away, a reminder that investigators were piecing together evidence from a vehicle left on a major road rather than from a fixed address such as a home, parking lot or business. That kind of scene often leaves the public with little immediate clarity: drivers may have passed the aftermath without knowing what happened, while detectives work backward from the vehicle, the victim’s route, phone records, camera footage and any witness accounts to reconstruct the final minutes. Police have not said how long Huntley’s vehicle had been on the interstate before officers reached her, and they have not released any information about whether shell casings, surveillance video or other physical evidence were recovered.
The procedural path ahead is clearer than the underlying facts. Atlanta police said homicide investigators responded to determine the circumstances surrounding the incident, and the department noted that the information released so far is preliminary and could change as the investigation develops. In practical terms, that means detectives are likely still trying to establish where Huntley was shot, who was with her in the hours before the attack and whether her route on April 14 can be tracked through cameras or digital records. No charges had been announced as of Friday, April 17. The Fulton County Medical Examiner’s identification of Huntley established the victim’s name and confirmed her age, while local reporting added that she was pregnant and the mother of two. The next public milestone will probably be a police update identifying a suspect, clarifying the original location of the shooting or releasing a more detailed account of Huntley’s movements before officers found her on I-75. Until then, the case remains in the evidence-gathering stage rather than the charging stage.
What has emerged most clearly is the human cost. Huntley’s death has been described by local outlets through the eyes of family members who said she was heading home from work, a detail that underscores how routine her evening had apparently been before it turned fatal. The public record still does not show a confrontation, a chase or any exchange before the shooting. Instead, the story now rests on a few hard facts: a mother on her way home, a gunshot wound, a vehicle on a crowded interstate near the airport, a trip to Grady Memorial Hospital and a homicide investigation that is still missing its central explanation. For relatives, that leaves grief without many answers. For investigators, it leaves a scene that may not be the true starting point. And for Atlanta drivers who passed through that corridor Tuesday evening, it leaves the unsettling possibility that a deadly act unfolded partly out of sight and only became visible when Huntley’s car came to rest on the highway.
As of Friday, police had identified Huntley but had not named a suspect or said where the shooting began. The next key step is a more detailed update from Atlanta police on the original location, any persons of interest and whether evidence from the vehicle or nearby cameras has narrowed the search.
Author note: Last updated April 17, 2026.