Atlanta’s 2022 homicide victims

The Atlanta Police Department investigated 170 homicides in 2022.

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Dec. 31: Malang Touray, 19, died three days after being shot at The Hills at Greenbriar apartments at 2909 Campbellton Road, where he lived. Touray was a May 2022 graduate of Therrell High School and was attending Georgia State University, according to his obituary. The case remains under investigation.

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Dec. 30: Rashone Gardner, 44, was killed in a shooting on Kipling Street in northeast Atlanta. Another person was also injured. The following day, Duwayne Johnson and Rene Ndiaye, both 26, were arrested on charges of murder and aggravated assault. Johnson faces additional charges of robbery by entering an automobile and possession of a firearm during the commission of a felony.

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Dec. 29: At about 4:30 a.m., officers found Fulton County Deputy James Thomas dead in the driver’s seat of his car in the 1900 block of Bolton Road. He crashed after being shot, according to investigators. Thomas, a Mississippi native, was off-duty and in his personal vehicle when he was killed. Days later, police arrested 26-year-old Alton Deshawn Oliver and charged him with murder, aggravated assault and possession of a firearm during the commission of a felony.

Dec. 24: John D. Edwards, 42, of Clayton County, was shot and killed at around 11:15 p.m. at a gas station in the 100 block of Boulevard. Investigators obtained surveillance photos and are seeking the public’s help in the investigation.

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Dec. 23: Arthur Heard, 53, was found dead from multiple gunshot wounds two days before Christmas. Heard was found laying face down on Holderness Street in southwest Atlanta when firefighters were called to a nearby blaze, police said. The case remains under investigation.

Dec. 22: Tyrone Hardesty, 35, was shot to death at The Peaks at MLK apartments. He worked as a forklift operator, but music was his passion, according to his obituary. In early January, Marquez Williams, 20, was arrested and charged with murder.

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Dec. 22: Joseph Williams, 24, was shot multiple times and killed around 4:30 a.m. at a BP station at 3550 Campbellton Road. The shooting followed a dispute in the parking lot, police said. The case remains under investigation.

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Dec. 18: Christopher Partee, 38, was found shot to death on a sidewalk outside the Gentleman’s Club in the 100 block of Baker Street shortly before 11 a.m., several hours before the strip club was set to open. Investigators believe he had “engaged in an altercation with a known suspect” before he was shot. Elizabeth Wilson, 28, was charged with felony murder and possession of a weapon during the commission of a felony.

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Dec. 17: Officers were called to Amal Drive aat Giben Road in the Amal Heights neighborhood in southwest Atlanta just before 5:30 p.m. There, Jormonte Trice, 21, had been shot in his abdomen. He took himself to the hospital but did not survive. The investigation continues.

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Dec. 17: Justin Powell, 16, was one of two teenagers killed in a shooting at the Retreat at Greenbriar apartment complex at 3000 Continental Colony Parkway in southwest Atlanta. The other teen’s death has not been ruled a homicide. Nearly two weeks after the shooting, Montavious Ferguson, 19, was arrested and charged with murder.

Dec. 14: A week after being shot on Fairburn Road in southwest Atlanta, ZiCorey Kenner, 20, died from his injuries. The investigation continues.

Dec. 13: A burned body was found in the woods in northwest Atlanta, police said. An autopsy determined the person had died from a gunshot wound, police said. In January, the victim was identified as 32-year-old Nicholas Williams.

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Dec. 13: Around 10:40 a.m., Theophilus McDaniel, 42, was found shot at the Synergy Multifamily apartments along Martin Luther King Jr. Drive, according to police. His son, Carrun McDaniel, 20, was charged with murder.

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Dec. 10: Eleanor Bowles, 77, was found stabbed to death in her Buckhead home when her son arrived to visit for the holidays. Investigators believe she may have interrupted a car thief. Within 48 hours, Antonio Marquivis Brown, 23, was arrested and charged with murder.

Dec. 3: A fire broke out around 8:30 a.m. at a house in the 900 block of Bolton Road. When it was extinguished, crews found a man and a woman dead. One of those deaths was later ruled a homicide but the person has not been identified, police said.

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Dec. 4: Joshua Igbinijesu, 24, was shot and killed at a gas station near Georgia State University, where he was a student. The shooting happened at the RaceTrac at 120 Piedmont Avenue around 4:30 p.m., police said. His family and friends held a vigil where he was killed. The case remains under investigation.

Dec. 2: Jonathan Johnson, 33, was shot while sitting in his car outside the C&S Food Mart at 3032 Stone Hogan Connector in the Greenbriar neighborhood in southwest Atlanta, police said.

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Dec. 1: Julian McCastle, 61, died from blunt force trauma after he was injured in a fight with someone he knew in southwest Atlanta, police said. Officers were called to a home on Ira Street in the Pittsburgh neighborhood after getting reports of an unresponsive man around 4:30 p.m.

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Nov. 29: Cameron Jackson, 15, died days after being shot on the 17th Street bridge. Cameron was a boxer who dreamed of competing in the 2024 Olympics in Paris, his family and coach said.

Nov. 28: Investigators believe an argument over a woman led to a shooting that killed Emanuel Stewart, 42. Police said the suspect went to a home Moore Street, off Hollywood Road in northwest Atlanta, to see his ex-girlfriend and found her with another man, fought with the man then fled after teh shooting. No arrests have been made. Stewart lived in Villa Rica, according to his obituary.

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Nov. 26: Zyion Charles, 12, was shot on the 17th Street bridge in Midtown. Investigators have said a group of children and teens were escorted off Atlantic Station property for violating the area’s curfew. Moments later, shots rang out. Zyion’s mother and grandmother said the system had failed the boy, who had a mental illness. Three suspects, one 15 and the other two 16, have been arrested.

Nov. 26: Officers were called to a home in the 100 block of Campbell Street, where they found Nathaniel Young of Decatur shot to death He was 25. Joshua Warren, 40, was charged with felony murder, aggravated assault and possession of a firearm during the commission of a felony. “Nate, you were such a good person,” a message posted on his online obituary stated. “I will truly miss seeing you.”

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Nov. 24: Raheem Franklin, 29, was shot to death on Thanksgiving Day at the Golf Vista apartments at 445 Cleveland Avenue. Investigators believe Franklin was involved in a fight with people he knew at the complex. “We will never forget the love you gave while on this earth,” a relative commented on Franklin’s online obituary. “Your light will never be diminished, the DEVIL didn’t win!”

Nov. 22: Quantavious Zachary, 30, died after being shot multiple times at a southeast Atlanta gas station. Officers were called to the Pure station at 3015 Jonesboro Road at about 7 p.m. The case remains under investigation.

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Nov. 20: Memphis “Dylan” Waddell was the second person killed at 1270 Spring Street. In addition to his family and friends, Waddell left behind two beloved dogs, according to a GoFundMe page created by his family. “Dylan was a lovable soul who loved life,” the organizer wrote. “He had a great sense of humor. He was funny, silly, witty, and so loyal to his family and friends. He treated everyone with love and had a deep sense of compassion for those dear and close to him.”

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Nov. 20: Two people were shot around 2 a.m. at 1270 Spring Street, near the Spectrum on Spring apartment complex, police said. Shawn Parker, 23, of Lithonia and Memphis Dylan Waddell, 21, of Snellville died at the scene. Phillip Mills, was charged with two counts of murder. According to a GoFundMe campaign created by Parker’s family to help with funeral costs, “Shawn was killed by someone he called a ‘friend.’”

Nov. 19: Foster Brown, 42, was shot across from Peachtree Fountains Plaza near the Five Points MARTA station downtown. Officers were called to 29 Peachtree St. around 7 p.m. and found Brown with a gunshot wound to the abdomen. He died at the hospital.

Nov. 14: Officers were called to the area near a Quiznos on Marietta Street just after 3:15 a.m. and found Priness Fields, 37, on the ground. He died at the scene and appeared to have suffered blunt force trauma to the head, police said. On Dec. 7, Deiontre Hughes, 28, was arrested and charged with murder.

Nov. 13: Shortly after 1:30 p.m. on Joseph E. Lowery Boulevard, witnesses reported seeing a man who had been shot inside a vehicle, according to police. Dangelo Rogers, 46, died from his injuries. Investigators believe he was shot around the corner from a funeral home near the intersection of Abbott and Parsons streets.

Nov. 11: Shortly after midnight, Eric Hughes, 51 was shot multiple times in the 900 block of Pelham Street west of Joseph E. Lowery Boulevard, police said. The New York native is survived by three children and six grandchildren, along with his mother and grandmother, according to his obituary.

Nov. 10: James Cason, 63, was found dead at the Park Vista apartments on Fisher Road at about 6:30 p.m., according to police. Cason, a Waycross native, graduated from Ware County High School in 1977 and attended Valdosta State University, his obituary states. George Sharrod Johns was charged with murder.

Nov. 10: Arlontae Marks, 26, was shot at the AMLI Lenox apartments at 3478 Lakeside Drive, where he lived, at about 4:40 p.m., police said. The following day, Xavier Frison, of Fairburn, was charged with murder.

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Nov. 6. Shortly before 9:30 a.m., a woman was shot to death in the Deerwood neighborhood of southwest Atlanta, police said. She was identified as D’Zondria Walters, 36, a mother of two who worked as a truck driver.

Nov. 5: Officers were called to the area of the Peach Pantry at 1085 Katherwood Drive just before 5:30 p.m. and found a man with a gunshot wound. Michael Gray, 51, was rushed to Grady Memorial Hospital, where he died.

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Oct. 31: Gunfire was reported shortly before 1 a.m. at 500 Bishop Street, a few blocks west of Atlantic Station. Akquan Williams, 21, had been shot multiple times and pronounced dead at the scene, according to police. His family told Channel 2 Action News he was caught in the crossfire.

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Oct. 27: Dean Phillips, 54, was leaving Manuel’s Tavern on North Highland Avenue after hanging out with friends when he saw a man attempting to break into cars, according to friends and witnesses. He was shot once in the chest and died in the parking lot as patrons looked on in horror. Phillips was a married father of five. No arrests have been made.

Oct. 27: At about 9:15 p.m., a gunshot victim was discovered near a Wendy’s on Boulevard in the Old Fourth Ward neighborhood. Ned Jackson, 60, was found in an alleyway shot in the back of the head, police said. The case remains under investigation.

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Oct. 27: Officers were called to the Simpson Plaza strip mall at 735 Joseph E. Boone Boulevard just after 3:30 p.m. and found a man inside a vehicle suffering from multiple gunshot wounds. David Tigner, 49, died at the scene, police said. Terrence Heard, 49, of Atlanta, was charged with murder and possession of a firearm during the commission of a felony.

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Oct. 22: Cassandra Williams, 65, was found stabbed to death after police forced their way into a Grove Park home following a SWAT standoff, police said. Officers responded to the home in the 2000 block of North Avenue, not far from Donald Lee Hollowell Parkway, for a wellness check around 8:15 p.m.. When they got there, they learned that Curtis Lilly, 70, was barricaded inside. He was later arrested and charged with murder. Williams is survived by five children and 10 grandchildren, according to her obituary.

Oct. 15: Atlanta officers were called to the 330 block of Ardmore Circle just before 9:15 p.m., where they found Ansari Smith, 25, with multiple gunshot wounds. Smith died at a local hospital. The case remains under investigation.

Oct. 14: Joshua Malone, 33, was found shot to death on Victor Circle in northwest Atlanta’s West Lake neighborhood. The next day, Earnest Beasley, 48, was arrested on charges of felony murder, possession of a firearm during a felony and possession of a firearm by a convicted felon. Malone is survived by a daughter, according to his obituary.

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Oct. 13: Christopher Eberhart, 57, was shot and killed in a driveway on Peachtree Battle Road shortly after 7 a.m. Days later, Travis Landrey, 18, was arrested in Alabama in the victim’s stolen pickup truck. He faces charges of felony murder, murder, motor vehicle hijacking and possession of a firearm during the commission of a crime.

Oct. 11: Chryghonne Rainey, 22, was critically injured in a shooting at a laundromat in Atlanta’s West End neighborhood. Officers were called around 8:15 p.m. to Huebsch Laundry at 855 Oak Street. Rainey died two days later.

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Oct. 7: Undra Shorter Jr., 36, was found dead in what police believe was an abandoned house in the 500 block of Joseph E. Lowery Boulevard at about 11:50 a.m. He had been shot to death. The case remains under investigation. Shorter, a Florida native, was employed as a store clerk, his obituary states. “‘CooJay’ enjoyed entertaining, dancing, making people laugh, and spending time with his family. He was such a fun person to be around.”

Oct. 6: Officers were called to a home on Scottridge Drive at about 3:10 p.m. after getting reports of a person shot, Atlanta police said. Tobias Pointer Jr., 25, died before he could be taken to the hospital. The case remains under investigation.

Oct. 2: Kolby Price, 22, died at the scene after being shot at an apartment complex in southwest Atlanta’s Glenrose Heights neighborhood. Officers were called to the complex on Mt. Zion Road across from Macon Drive around 5:30 p.m. and found a man with multiple gunshot wounds.

Oct. 1: Kameron Thomas, 22, was killed and another person injured after being shot just outside Atlanta’s Bankhead neighborhood. Officers were called to Lindsay Street Baptist Church, where they found the victims in the parking lot with gunshot wounds, police said.

Oct. 2: Clinton Odu, 36, was found with multiple gunshot wounds in the 2600 block of Steele Avenue just before 3 a.m. He died from his injuries. Weeks later, Jadarius Carr was arrested and charged with murder. Carr was also linked to crimes in East Point, police said.

Oct. 1: Jaquavious Wilson, 26, died from his injuries days after being shot on Baker Street at Williams Street. Another person was also shot and investigators said at the time that the two victims exchanged gunfire with suspects. The case remains under investigation.

Oct. 1: Officers were called to a home in the 2600 block of Beeler Drive just off Cleveland Avenue around 5 a.m. At the scene, police said Antonio Agnew, 41, had been shot multiple times at his home.

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Sept. 22: David Micheal Davis, 58, was shot at Advanced Auto Parts, just north of Custer Avenue, around 9 p.m. He died four days later, according to police. Davis lived in East Point, his obituary states. The case remains under investigation.

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Sept. 15: Sincere Sullivan, 20, was killed and another person was injured in what police believe was a targeted shooting at a southeast Atlanta gas station. The victims were shot in the parking lot of a Pure station on the corner of Jonesboro and Hutchens roads at about 10:45 a.m. Sullivan was a father and engaged to be married, his obituary states.

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Sept. 14: Horace Meadows, 52, was found injured on Forsyth Street south of Trinity Avenue just before 4 p.m. He had been shot multiple times with a pellet gun. Meadows was taken to a hospital but later died. The case remains under investigation.

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Sept. 9: Officers were called to the home in the 1000 block of Harwell Street at about 6:15 p.m. regarding a person shot. At the scene, investigators found Zaccardi Dukes Jr., 17, with multiple gunshot wounds. The case remains under investigation.

Cornelius Rhodes was shot in July and the case declared homicide in September. More specific details have not been released.

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Sept. 7: Allahnia Lenoir, 24, was reported missing Aug. 1 and was last seen July 30 at Peachtree Midtown Apartments at 1660 Peachtree Street, according to police. Her body hasn’t been found, but investigators believe she was killed. Two men authorities say she was last with, Diante Reynolds, 29, and Steven Oboite, 29, have been charged with murder. Reynolds was arrested on Sept. 9 while authorities are still looking for Oboite. Nicholas Hendrickson has been charged with concealing the death of another.

Sept. 1: Brandon Mathis, 34, was found around 11:10 p.m. in the 3200 block of Lynfield Drive, off Benjamin E. Mayes and Lynhurst drives. He was pronounced dead at the scene. Mathis lived in Austell. The case remains under investigation.

Aug. 31: An attempted slider crime turned deadly when Prince Oluzor confronted the would-be thieves outside a gas station on Atlanta’s Westside, police said. The 38-year-old was found shot around 11 p.m. and lying outside a BP station on the corner of 14th Street and Atlantic Drive by patrol officers working in the area. Oluzor worked as the manager for the Nigerian singer Tamaya, according to social media reports. The case remains under investigation.

Aug. 31: Clemmin Walker-Davis, 38, was found shot to death in the 800 block of James Jackson Parkway around 7:30 a.m. Witnesses told investigators they heard multiple gunshots around 4 a.m. Walker, a father of five, was remembered for always being willing to help others. “He was a very, very kind-hearted man,” a daughter said. “He did a lot for people, and not even just his family. It could be anybody.” The case remains under investigation.

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Aug. 27: Ava Philips, 7, was shot in the head and killed during an argument at a family gathering in Atlanta’s Old Fourth Ward neighborhood, according to police. Two people were charged in the case: Deshon Collins, 23 and Phillips’ mother, Kemeka Springfield, 44. Springfield was charged with aggravated assault and possession of a firearm during the commission of a felony. Collins was arrested in November and charged with murder, cruelty towards children, aggravated assault and possession of a firearm during the commission of a felony.

Aug. 26: A 30-year-old man was dead and two suspects were charged with murder after what investigators believe was a drug-related botched robbery in Buckhead. Nader Farhat was killed in the shooting. The two suspects, Christopher Cyprian, 40, and Jameka Bagnerise, 44, both were charged with murder and armed robbery, according to police.

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Aug. 23: Quintin Mack, 14, was shot multiple times at a restaurant on Fayetteville Road on Aug. 23, Atlanta police said. He was taken to Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta at Egleston Hospital, where he died from his injuries. Four weeks later, Cecil Adkison, 23, of Decatur was taken into custody by the Atlanta police fugitive unit and the U.S. Marshals Service, police said. Mack’s funeral included tributes from multiple Atlanta-area recording artists, including rapper 2Chainz, whose legal name is Tauheed Epps. In a video tribute, Epps referred to Mack as his nephew and called him “a bright young man, ahead of his time.”

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Aug. 22: Michael Shinners, 60, and Wesley Freeman, 41, were killed when a shooter opened fire at two locations in Midtown, according to Atlanta police. Mike Horne also was shot, and a fourth victim was held at gunpoint but was uninjured in the shooting spree, which terrorized people in the area. Raissa Kengne, 34, who later arrested and charged with murder, was suing Shinners and Freeman, along with Beacon Management Services and BDO USA, alleging that they retaliated against her for being a whistleblower. The two victims were remembered as devoted family men.

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Aug. 20: Damian Peterson, 38, was stabbed several times during a fight in his northeast Atlanta home. He died from his injuries at the Oak Valley Road home. Nia Warren of Tennessee was arrested the same day and charged with murder, aggravated assault and possession of a firearm during the commission of a felony, according to police. Warren was granted a $45,000 bond in January 2023. Peterson was a graduate of the Harvard University school of law and was an attorney, according to his obituary.

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Aug. 17: Officers responded to a report of a shooting just after 1 a.m. in the 1200 block of Anchor Terrace in the Venetian Hills neighborhood. There they found Darrell Lynn Boyd, 34, shot in the chest. The case remains under investigation.

Aug. 10: Officers were called to a Beecher Road home in southwest Atlanta because a baby was unresponsive, according to police. Journee Byrd, 7 weeks, was taken to the hospital but did not survive. Detectives noticed both bruising and scarring on the baby’s body, according to the police report. Her parents, Zion Kendrick Byrd, 23, and Deshan Turner, 20, were charged with murder and cruelty to children.

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Aug. 15: Marcus Brandon, 28, was found shot and in the street in the 700 block of Hutchens Road, near South Atlanta High School, when officers responded at about 11:15 p.m. He was lying next to a U-Haul truck, police previously said. Brandon was the father of a young girl, according to his obituary. The case remains under investigation.

Aug. 15: Brandon Scott, 39, was stabbed multiple times about 6:20 a.m. at the Texaco at the corner of Martin Luther King Jr. Drive and Peyton Place and later died at Grady Memorial Hospital, police said. A witness to the stabbing shot the suspect after following the knife-wielding man from a southwest Atlanta gas station to a nearby apartment complex, police said. Malcolm Elroy Sanders was later charged with murder.

Aug. 15: Joseph Smith, 30, was shot and killed outside Odyssey Lounge along West Marietta Street after a fight over a vehicle being blocked in the parking lot, police said. When officers arrived at about 3:20 a.m., the Minneapolis man was found dead in the parking lot and two others had also been shot. Smith is survived by a young daughter, his sister said after his death.

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Aug. 10: Beatrice Bell, 36, was killed inside her McWilliams Road home in what investigators believe was an act of domestic violence. The following day, police announced that her suspected killer died following a police chase that ended when he crashed into a store. State troopers and Atlanta officers attempted to stop Maurice Bradley, 36, who cashed into a package store near the intersection of Pryor Road and University Avenue. Bradley then shot and killed himself, police said.

Aug. 7: Rashad Rogers, 31, and April Sparks, 33, were both killed in a shooting that injured four others at Rosa L. Burney Park on Windsor Street. A 6-year-old girl was critically injured in the shooting, which remains under investigation.

Aug. 7: Milton Daniels, 65, was shot to death at his Wyndham Woods home in southeast Atlanta, according to police. An arrest has been made in the case.

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Aug. 7: Quittavious Wright, 32, was shot to death in the Parkside apartments in the 1300 block of Donald Lee Hollowell Parkway, police said. Wright lived in the complex. The case remains under investigation.

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Aug. 5: Dahlaia Roberts, 60, who worked as a senior community manager at the Cosby Spears Memorial Towers, was shot multiple times at the North Avenue high-rise by a resident, according to police. Suspect Robert Coker, 64, was found dead of what appeared to be a self-inflicted gunshot wound in nearby Central Park. Roberts, who lived in Kennesaw, is survived by four brothers and three sisters, according to her obituary.

Aug. 4: Cheron Wade, 48, was shot to death in the Harland Terrace neighborhood on Atlanta’s west side. Officers were called to the Columbia Commons apartment complex in the 2500 block of Martin Luther King Jr. Drive shortly after 10:30 a.m. to investigate a shooting, but they could not locate any victims. They returned about an hour later after another 911 caller spotted Wade’s body. Jaryn Ware, 18, was charged with murder and three counts of aggravated assault.

Aug. 3: Police were called to the Manor III Apartments in the 1400 block of Arthur Langford Jr. Place to check out reports of a shooting shortly after 8 p.m. There they found Darnell Glass, 38, dead from at least one gunshot wound.

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Aug. 2: LaMarkus Griffin, 36, was found dead in Wilson Mill Park off Bakers Ferry Road shortly after 10 p.m., according to police. He had been shot multiple times. No arrests have been made in the case.

Aug. 1: Larry Reese, 29, was shot to death outside a southwest Atlanta recording studio on the Stone Hogan Connector at North Camp Creek Parkway. Another man was also shot but survived, according to police.

July 25: Earl Johnson, 67, died from his injuries from a March 11 shooting on 7th Street in southwest Atlanta. Johnson was a native of Indianola, Mississippi, according to his online obituary.

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July 27: Cornelius Rhodes, 32, was shot while in a car at the intersection of James P Brawley and MLK Jr. Drive. He was able to tell police a woman shot him. Rhodes later died at the hospital. The shooting was declared a homicide in September and a suspect was later arrested.

July 18: Jamarkis Jackson, 17, was one of five people shot at a condemned apartment complex in southeast Atlanta. The shootings took Atlanta police officers to the Forest Cove Apartments in the Thomasville Heights neighborhood shortly before 2 a.m., according to police. Jackson, who lived in Union City, later died from his injuries.

July 23: Cameron Mitchell, 17, was shot during a dispute that escalated to gunfire at a Glenrose Heights apartment complex on Mount Zion Road, police said. No arrests have been made in the case.

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July 14: Lakim Womack, 29, was shot and killed at a West Midtown apartment complex. Marquize Perry, 27, charged with felony murder. Womack lived in the complex, address records showed.

July 13: The parents of a 2-month-old Robert Kingston Williams were arrested after investigators determined the infant ingested cocaine before his death. Williams died Sept. 20, 2021, but toxicology testing delayed the death being classified as a homicide. The parents face one count each of second-degree murder and second-degree cruelty to children. The mother, MaKaylee Nevils, entered a guilty plea in December.

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July 2: Daniel Johnson, 22, of Hiram died after being shot multiple times on Kelly Street, according to police. Daniel Wright and T’lani Robinson were charged with murder.

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July 1: Rhydiah Ware, 30, died five days after being shot in what authorities believe was the result of road rage off Greenbriar Parkway. While Atlanta investigators gathered evidence, they learned another victim had been located in Cobb County. The investigation continues.

June 27: David Minor, a 22-year-old Georgia State University student, was shot inside a Summerhill apartment. “I tried to save him,” said the friend who found him. “I tried to keep him alive.”

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June 26: A triple shooting in a Buckhead parking lot killed Artez Benton, 23, of Scottdale. Two other men, including music executive Chaka Zulu, were injured in the shooting, which happened around 11:35 p.m. in the 2200 block of Peachtree Road. Benton graduated from Young Harris College and was training to become a certified electrician. In September, Zulu was charged with murder and arrested.

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June 26: A shooting at a Subway on Northside Drive killed Brittany Macon, 26. A customer enraged over the amount of mayonnaise on his sandwich pulled out a gun shortly after 6:30 p.m., police said. Melvin Williams, 36, was charged with murder, aggravated assault and possession of a firearm during the commission of a felony. Court records show Williams was out on bond at the time of the shooting. He’d been arrested in March 2021 on charges of aggravated assault and third-degree cruelty to children.

June 25: Ronald Rosser, 48, was found shot to death at around 6:30 a.m. in the 1500 block of DeKalb Avenue. The investigation continues into the death of Rosser, who police said was homeless.

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June 25: Brandon Stokes, 33, died after being stabbed at a home in the 2700 block of Dearwood Drive around 2:30 a.m. Stokes lived in Jonesboro, according to police. One arrest was made in the case.

June 21: Septimus Wise, 24, was shot and killed outside a grocery store around 7:15 a.m. in the Westview neighborhood south of I-20. Officers called to the Westview Corner Grocery, an independently owned natural foods store in the 1500 block of Ralph David Abernathy Boulevard, and found Wise dead in a parking lot behind the store.

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June 19: Two teens were found shot at 12:25 p.m. in the Villages at Carver apartment complex in the 180 block of Moury Avenue, police said. JaMarquez McCrary was 17 and Nyriek Olds was 18. On Dec. 6, Darshae Barnes was arrested and charged with two counts each of murder, aggravated assault, and criminal attempt to commit murder, along with possession of a firearm by a minor and possession of a firearm during the commission of a felony.

June 18: David Robertson, 56, was found dead on Jesse Hill Drive with blunt force trauma to the head. Later that day, a man confessed to the killing, police said. Nicholas Bolay, 40, was charged with murder and aggravated assault.

June 16: Christopher Clay, 25, was found shot to death at a home in the 1100 block of Jones Avenue in northwest Atlanta around 11:15 p.m. Clay lived about five miles away. The case remains under investigation.

June 15: Several gunshots were heard around 2:15 a.m. near Woodruff Park. On Park Place, officers found a man shot to death. Investigators have not been able to identify the man, who was believed to be homeless. Michael Lee, 34, was later charged with murder, aggravated assault and possession of a firearm during the commission of a felony.

June 14: At about 9:40 p.m. near Thomasville Park in southeast Atlanta, Antoine Gresham, 20, was found shot and lying on the ground. Gresham had been shot near his home, according to investigators.

June 13: Christopher Washington, 35, was shot to death at 14 Marietta Street near Woodruff Park. Montrell Williams, 30, was arrested the following day and charged with felony murder.

June 12: Vincent Parks, 32, was killed when people started shooting at each other outside the entrance to Grady Memorial Hospital’s emergency department, police said. Parks lived in Riverdale. Investigators charged a suspect with murder.

June 9: Around 12:14 pm, officers found Eugene Williams, 45, shot to death on Skipper Place in northwest Atlanta. Williams lived in Perry. One arrest was made in the case.

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June 2: Drevion Matthews, 17, died after being shot at the Columbia at Mechanicsville Apartments in the 500 block of Humphries Street in southwest Atlanta, police said. Matthews was a student at Maynard Jackson High School. Roddrick Teasley, 29, was arrested in July and charged with murder.

May 28: Wyman Boyd, 27, died after being shot at a shopping plaza off Camp Creek Parkway in southwest Atlanta. Boyd was outside a barber shop at the time, according to police. The California native was a father and worked as an automobile salesman, according to his obituary. The investigation continues.

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May 21: Officers found Fredrick Austin, 54, at 3:15 a.m. in the 350 block of Oliver Street. He had been shot to death and was in the road, authorities said. The site is near Kathryn Johnston Memorial Park in Atlanta’s English Avenue neighborhood.

May 15: Demetrius Roberts, 26, was found dead from a gunshot wound around 3 p.m. in the 1700 block of Campbellton Road. The case remains under investigation.

May 12: Tavoris Burns, 41, died after being shot in the Carey Park neighborhood in the 1100 block of 5th Street in northwest Atlanta. One person has been charged in the case.

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May 5: Donald Harrell, 54, was shot on Peachtree Street near the Garnett Street MARTA Station. He died at Grady Memorial Hospital. Harrell’s daughter created a GoFundMe page to help cover the cost of his funeral.

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April 30: Corey Blount died after being shot in the 530 block of Sunset Avenue, police said. He lived in Hampton and had just celebrated his 21st birthday. An arrest was made in the case.

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April 29: Seabron Kelley III, 26, was found shot to death around 3 a.m. along a cut-through off Beckwith Street, not far from the Atlanta University Center. Gunshot detection technology had alerted police to gunfire in the area, authorities said.

April 26: Jarrod Alexander, 55, believed to be homeless, was found with gunshot wounds near Cheshire Bridge and Lenox roads about 10 p.m., police said. He may have been dead several days before his body was found, investigators said at the time. The case remains open.

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April 22: Bobby Stembridge, 31, was fatally shot after he caught unidentified suspects breaking into vehicles at the Auburn Glenn Apartments in the 40 block of Boulevard. Investigators said thieves opened fire on Stembridge and his girlfriend as they fled the scene. He died at the hospital and his girlfriend was shot in the ankle.

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April 20: Darrio Giles, 39, was found shot to death at the Seven Courts Apartments in the 2800 block of Martin Luther King Jr. Drive, where he lived, shortly after 10 a.m. Investigators believe robbery was the motive. The case remains under investigation.

April 18: Charles Youngblood, 62, was found shot at his Connell Avenue home in southwest Atlanta. Investigators believe he had been dead for several hours when his girlfriend found him and dialed 911.

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April 18: Anthony Frazier, 51, was shot outside American Seafood and Wings, the Cleveland Avenue restaurant where he worked as a security guard. Officers were called to the small strip mall just south of the I-75/85 split shortly before 7 p.m. and found him dead. Stanley Henderson, 30, was taken into custody on a murder charge two days later.

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April 15: Rubin “Pokey” Bridges, 59, was found shot to death in a wrecked sedan near the entrance to the Donnelly Courts apartments in southwest Atlanta. Bridges was married and had twin granddaughters who adored him. The case remains under investigation.

April 12: Carl Phillips, 66, was critically injured when the house he was living in caught fire and he later died. Investigators were called to the Chappell Drive home in northwest Atlanta shortly after midnight. Alice Blackwell has been charged with first-degree arson.

April 12: Antonio L. Whatley, 57, was stabbed near his home in the 900 block of Metropolitan Parkway. Days later, Antwion Joseph Thompson, 29, of Atlanta, was charged with murder, aggravated assault with a deadly weapon and possession of a knife during the commission of a felony. Investigators believe a dispute led to the stabbing.

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April 10: Alexander Tigner, 32, who lived in Riverdale, was shot outside the Atlanta immigration federal courthouse at 180 Ted Turner Drive. Earl Robert Wade, 41, and Meyoshia Larrysha Gentry, 32, were arrested in southwest Atlanta on May 4 on murder charges.

April 10: Jarvis Curtis, 24, was found shot to death at the Westmar Lofts at 800 West Marietta Street. The Mississippi native is survived by his mother and five siblings. In June, investigators said there were three possible suspects.

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April 8: Grady Scott III, 28, a passenger in a Range Rover, was shot and killed in an area of Midtown popular for nightlife. He was discovered after an off-duty Atlanta police officer heard gunshots in the area of 12th Street and Crescent Avenue.

April 6: Taurus Jefferies Jr., 25, was shot near Atlantic Station at Ellington Midtown apartment complex along 17th Street. A week later, D’Angelo Maddix was charged with murder, armed robbery, aggravated assault and possession of a firearm during the commission of a felon.

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April 8: Officers responded to a residence in the 200 block of Argus Circle around 5:30 p.m. and found a man wounded. Qwantavius Harris, 24, was taken to Grady Memorial Hospital, where he died. In May, Mekhi Antonio McKinney, 18, was arrested and charged with murder, armed robbery and aggravated assault.

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April 5: Willie Joe Henderson III, 31, was shot in the Thomasville neighborhood at the Forest Cove apartment complex. Drashawn Mitchell, 27, was arrested April 12 and charged with murder, aggravated battery, and possession of a firearm during the commission of a felony.

April 4: Desmond Key, a 35-year-old father of two, was shot outside The Dagny Midtown, a luxury apartment building on Juniper Street. Police said at least two people got out of a dark sedan before shooting Key and stealing his backpack. The Morehouse College graduate was pronounced dead when officers arrived just before 3 a.m. Keon Hudson, 19, of Peachtree Corners, was taken into custody in June on charges of murder, armed robbery and possession of a firearm during the commission of a crime.

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April 3: Officers were called around 2 a.m. to the Dive Bar Buckhead in the 3100 block of Roswell Road, where they found Malcolm Collins dead with a gunshot wound. He was 27. Collins lived in Duluth, according to police.

March 25: Robert McFarland, 27, was shot at the Texaco on Clifton Street around 8:30 p.m. Witnesses told police a man in a mask and gloves walked in, shot McFarland and ran. Police called it a targeted attack, saying the suspect “was apparently carrying two weapons at the time and expelled a barrage of gunfire on the victim inside.”

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March 25: Officials responded to the 2600 block of Baker Street about 1:45 a.m. and found Torrence Adams, 30, shot to death in the doorway. Adams did not live in the house. The case remains under investigation.

March 24: At 12:15 a.m., police were called to the entrance ramp to I-20 at 300 Pryor Street, where they found Craig Hall Jr., 31, dead from a gunshot wound. That area is a block from Atlanta police headquarters.

March 24: Just after midnight, a 911 caller reported a person shot in the 940 block of Smith Street, about two blocks from Pittman Park in Atlanta’s Pittsburgh neighborhood. When officers arrived, they found Jeremy Miles, 36, dead from gunshot wounds.

March 23: Jacob Weaver, 31, was found dead in a wooded area of Atlanta’s Carey Park neighborhood. Officers responded to a person down call in the woods at the corner of Etheridge Drive and 7th Street near the Etheridge Court Apartments around 5 p.m.

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March 22: Laderrick Jackson, 24, was killed when an argument at a popular downtown restaurant and hookah lounge escalated to gunfire, police said. The call about a person shot outside the Monaco Hookah Lounge on Trinity Avenue came in just after 6 a.m. Jackson, who had a 1-year-old daughter, was a popular promoter known as Huncho.

March 22: David M. Rogers, 24, was found with a gunshot wound at a southeast Atlanta mobile home park and taken to the hospital where he died. Officers were called to the Colony South Mobile Home Park in the 2000 block of Jonesboro Road about 5:40 a.m.

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March 21: Nasier Fitzgerald, 21, was found shot at 232 Forsyth Street, just around the block from Atlanta police headquarters. Fitzgerald, who lived in Stone Mountain, died at the hospital.

March 18: One man was killed and another wounded during a shooting at the Oxford Village Townhouse complex in the 2900 block of Jonesboro Road. Emilio Stanton, who had lived in the complex, was 20.

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March 17: LaKevia Jackson, 31, was shot to death after celebrating her best friend’s birthday at the Metro Fun Center on Metropolitan Parkway in southwest Atlanta. Investigators said the shooting followed a fight over a bowling ball. Jackson had a teenage son with rapper Young Thug.

March 15: Ricardo Fontaine, 24, was shot and killed at a gas station in the Sweet Auburn neighborhood. The shooting was reported to police shortly before 8:15 p.m. at an Exxon station at 400 Edgewood Avenue. Anthony Harrison, 39, was later charged with murder and two counts of aggravated assault.

March 14: Shymel Drinks, 23, died after being shot in a car parked near a southwest Atlanta interstate bridge. Drinks was found about 10:20 p.m. in the area of Windsor Street and I-20 in the Mechanicsville neighborhood. Authorities charged four men with murder: Shannon Stillwell, Quamarvious Nichols, Miles Farley and Damekion Garlington. All four are set to stand trial along with Atlanta rapper Young Thug after being named in a sweeping Fulton County gang indictment.

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March 12: Officers were called to the 1000 block of Hollywood Road and found a man with a gunshot wound. Demetrius Height, 24, was taken to Wellstar Atlanta Medical Center and died shortly after arriving.

March 11: Two men were found shot after emergency crews pulled up to a stalled car on the Downtown Connector and found it riddled with bullets. Driver Christian McMiller, 31, died from his injuries at a hospital, according to the Fulton County Medical Examiner’s Office. The agency identified the passenger as Darius Ford, 29, of Atlanta.

March 7: An Atlanta college student was shot in southeast Atlanta after a funeral. Darrien Lamont Giles, 23, was in his car outside a family repast. Giles, who had a 10-month-old son, was set to finish his degree at Savannah State University.

March 5: Around 9:30 p.m., a fight led to three teens, ages 19, 16 and 14, being shot, one fatally, near Pryor and Bass streets. Joshua Adetunji, 16, of Palmetto, had been a student at Creekside High School in Fairburn.

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March 2: Officers were called to a townhouse complex in the 400 block of Piedmont Avenue and arrived to find a woman strangled. Shameria Gelisa Fletcher, 34, who grew up in Fayetteville, died at the scene. A week later, O’Keisha Morea Range, 34, was arrested and charged with murder and aggravated assault.

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March 1: Officers were called to a Chevron gas station in the 1600 block of Lakewood Avenue around 10:50 p.m. and found two victims with gunshot wounds. One went to a hospital on his own. Lashunder Edge, 64, died from her injuries. She’d come to the Chevron to cash a winning lottery ticket.

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Feb. 26: Thomas Arnold, 60, was found shot to death in Inman Park, in the area of Elizabeth Street and Bernina Avenue, not far from his Poncey-Highland home. Arnold was an active member of the community and would frequently walk around the neighborhood where he lived for the past 20 years. Brandon Williams, 28, and Demetrice Ross, 26, were charged with murder.

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Feb. 15: Officers were called to Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta at Hugh Spalding after a child was declared dead. Adrian Reid, 3, had numerous injuries, according to investigators. Alfronzo Jackson and Melvina Williams were arrested and charged with murder.

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Feb. 15: Cab driver Frederick Emereje, 72, was shot outside a downtown Atlanta apartment building at Centennial Olympic Park Drive and Hunnicutt Street around 4:45 a.m. Police believe Emereje was dropping off a passenger who shot him and fled in his taxi. Elibra Allen, 48, was arrested days later and charged with murder.

Feb. 14: Raymond Ratley, 49, died a week after being beaten and left on the ground outside the Ponce City Market. Two days after the Feb. 7 assault, a suspect was arrested. Charges were upgraded to murder against Marlon Harris after Ratley’s death.

Feb. 14: De’Andrea Franklin Hall Franklin Hall, 21, was shot at 1991 Delowe Drive around 12:40 a.m., just after finishing his shift at a nearby Krystal. Days later, Cleveland Lamont Williams, 24, was arrested and charged with murder.

Feb. 10: James Stephens, 44, was shot at a southwest Atlanta apartment complex. Atlanta police responded to the Appletree Apartments in the 2300 block of Campbellton Road, just south of Adams Park, shortly before 11 a.m. and found the victim dead outside one of the buildings.

Feb. 2: Anastacio Jeronimo-Amjrosio, 43, was shot in the chest while working at the Premier at 1935 Apartments in the 1900 block of Alison Court in southwest Atlanta. Trevion Dashawn Webb, 26, of Jonesboro was arrested and charged with murder.

Feb. 2: Security guard Tyshon Ross, 28, was found shot when Atlanta police were called to the Encore Hookah Bar on Luckie Street shortly after midnight. Police said Ross was asked to remove someone from the bar, leading to a fight, then the shooting.

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Jan. 29: Zyquan Lee, 20, was killed and three others injured when an argument at the PreGame Bar and Grill in the 800 block of Martin Luther King Jr. Drive led to a shootout. No arrests have been made.

Jan. 28: Dre Johnson, 23, was shot at the Advantage Corporation Apartments in the 1700 block of Commerce Drive at 2 p.m. Police say the deadly shooting may have stemmed from “illegal narcotics.”

Jan. 28: Kenyatta Reed, 25, was shot inside his Huff Road apartment in northwest Atlanta. SWAT officers were called to the apartment on a report of a barricaded gunman, a police report states. Quinterrious Mender, in custody on an unrelated case in Bibb County, was charged with murder in Reed’s death.

Jan. 26: Around 1 a.m., officers responding to The Blue Flame Lounge at 1097 Harwell Road NW found Dishawn Herndon, 21, of California, had been shot. Police charged Dedric Howard, 25, with murder. Robin Herndon told Channel 2 his son was a custom sneaker designer who designed shoes for many famous people and he believes his son was at the strip club to meet someone about custom-designed shoes. He later sued Blue Flame, alleging the popular lounge failed to provide adequate security.

Jan. 24: William Bell, 40, was found dead under a Piedmont Avenue bridge. An autopsy later determined he was a homicide victim. The case remains under investigation.

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Jan 24: Kerri Gray was in her car with her baby in northwest Atlanta when someone in another car started shooting. Her son, 6-month old Grayson Matthew Fleming-Gray, was killed by a stray bullet. Dequasie Little, 22, was arrested and charged with felony murder. Sharice Michelle Ingram, 22, also was charged with felony murder.

Jan. 22: Officers responding to the 3500 block of Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard just before 3:45 a.m. found William Singfield, 47, critically injured from a gunshot wound in one of the shops at Collier Heights Plaza in the Adamsville neighborhood. The father of three died at Grady Memorial Hospital.

Jan. 22: Jyson Swartz, 44, was found shot near South Atlanta High School in southeast Atlanta. Police were called to 800 Hutchens Road SE for a report of a shooting around 1:15 a.m. Swartz lived in Copper Hill, Tennessee.

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Jan. 15: Kelvice Roberson Jr., 15, was shot to death and a man was injured on Windsor Street in southwest Atlanta shortly before 4 p.m. Investigators believe the shooting was the result of a gun transaction gone wrong. To’Cara Laster and Jabari Dixon have been charged with murder. In July 2017, Roberson’s older brother was shot to death, his mother said.

Jan. 15: About 10:09 p.m., officers were called to William H. Borders Drive near the Martin Luther King Jr. National Historic Park. in reference to a person shot. There, they found Mark Richards Jr., 49, shot to death. Two months later, investigators released a photo of a man that may have been involved.

Jan. 15: Tay’vea Edwards, 28, was found shot to death at 100 Pine Street in northeast Atlanta. Officers were called to the scene shortly before 2 a.m. The case remains under investigation.

Jan. 12: Officers were called to a Stanton Road home shortly after 7 p.m. on a report of a person stabbed. Jason Jones, 38, who lived in the home, was taken to a hospital, where he died.

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Jan. 12: A man was shot at 201 Moury Ave at the Villages of Carver apartments in southwest Atlanta and driven to Grady Memorial Hospital, but did not survive. Officers were called to Grady at around 5:20 a.m. The victim was identified as Oumar Mbodj, 30. The case remains under investigation.

Jan. 12: A teen was killed in what investigators believe was a targeted shooting in northwest Atlanta. Police were called to an apartment on Griffin Street in the Vine City neighborhood shortly after 12:30 a.m. and found Jaylin Madrie, 19 dead at the scene.

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Jan. 10: Chandra Kemp, 49, died fom her injuries 11 days after being shot in her apartment as she cooked dinner. “Miss Chan,” as neighbors called her, had health issues and had survived several heart attacks, her neighbor Kawanna Harris said. Harris and her older children often checked on Kemp and made sure she was okay, sometimes helping her up the stairs to her apartment.

Jan. 3: Mark Lewis, 27, was found unconscious inside his car after crashing just before 6:45 p.m. at the Lenox Woods apartments in the Lindridge-Martin Manor neighborhood, east of Buckhead. After pulling Lewis from the car, firefighters found he’d been shot.

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Jan. 3: Timmie Thomas Jr., 31, of Atlanta, was found shot to death at the Allen Hills Apartments on Middleton Road at 5:15 p.m. A juvenile was later charged with murder. Thomas was the father of six children and four stepchildren and was pursuing a career in music.

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