Man Charged, Brother Dead After Sandy Springs Home Invasion

SANDY SPRINGS, GA — A man has been charged and his brother has died after the two attempted to break into a Sandy Springs apartment.

On Dec. 14, 2020, Sandy Springs Police responded to an apartment off Roswell Road regarding a home invasion that had just occurred. Once officers arrived, they found a man who had been severely beaten. He took officers to his apartment where one of the suspects had accidentally shot himself while pistol-whipping the other man, police said.

Sandy Springs Police detectives learned the victim had been targeted after agreeing to meet with a person he met on a dating app. The two suspects arrived and forced their way inside by beating the apartment resident with a firearm, police said. As one of the suspects pistol-whipped the victim, that firearm accidentally discharged one round. That caused a self-inflicted gunshot wound to him, resulting in his immediate death.

The second suspect left the scene and remained at large until his arrest Wednesday in Crawford County by the United States Marshals Service.

He has been identified as Ishmael Levi Khan, 20, from Fort Valley, Georgia. He has been charged with first degree home invasion, aggravated battery, aggravated assault, possession of a firearm during the commission of a felony, possession of a firearm by a convicted felon and felony murder.

Ishmael Khan has been turned over to the Fulton County Jail.

The deceased suspect was identified as Ishmael’s brother, Najahan Khan, 22, also from Fort Valley, Georgia.

Anyone with additional information on this case or these suspects is asked to contact Detective Tomlin at 770-551-3321 or ITomlin@SandySpringsGA.Gov.