A gunman tried to enter the consulate with a weapon, and then opened fire outside the entrance to the building, officials said.

A growing memorial outside the Honduran Consulate Office in DeKalb County honors the sacrifice of Jesus Loera, a security guard who was shot and killed while protecting people from a gunman trying to enter the building.

A man shot and killed a security guard at the Honduran consulate near Atlanta who asked the man to turn over his gun before entering the building.

A security guard was killed, and another person hurt after a shooting just feet from the door at the Consulate General of Honduras in Atlanta.

A suspect is in custody following the deadly shooting of a security guard at the Honduras Consulate in Doraville on Monday afternoon.

Doraville police said they responded to a person shot at the Consulate General of Honduras in Atlanta, located at 6755 Peachtree Industrial Blvd., just outside the perimeter in Doraville, shortly after 2 p.

The Honduras government says 45-year-Old Jesus Guillermo Loera Uria, a Mexican national, was a security guard at the Honduras Consulate’s Atlanta office in Doraville and confirms he was shot and killed Monday after confronting a suspect attempting to go inside the consulate with a gun.

One person was declared dead at the scene and the other was taken to a hospital for treatment with a suspect arrested at the scene and taken to the Doraville police station for questioning