Former boxing champ Vernon Forrest shot dead
Published:Tuesday | July 28, 2009 | 9:03 AM
Atlanta police say former boxing champion Vernon Forrest exchanged gunfire with robbery suspects before being shot to death.
Lieutenant Keith Meadows said investigators believe between 20 and 24 shots were fired from two guns.
Meadows said police recovered Forrest\'s gun and one shell casing belonging to that gun.
Police say Forrest had stopped at a gas station Saturday night and was putting air in his tire at the time of the robbery. He was shot multiple times in the back.
Forrest was a former IBF welterweight and two-time WBC junior middleweight champion with a 41-3 career record. He was on the 1992 Olympic team.