Joshua Mitchell, 37, was killed in the driveway of his Douglasville, Georgia, home on the evening of December 17, 2022. Mitchell, a United States Marine Corps veteran described as a hardworking contractor, husband and father, was found by Paulding County deputies after multiple 911 calls; he had sustained several gunshot wounds and was pronounced dead at the scene. His body was taken to the Georgia Bureau of Investigation Crime Lab for autopsy.

The Paulding County Sheriff’s Office and the GBI opened a homicide investigation. As of the one-year mark investigators had not publicly identified a motive or named any suspects and renewed a plea for information. No arrests or public identifications of suspects are reported.

If anyone has information about that December evening on Warrenton Drive in the Abbington Subdivision or saw anything unusual, please contact the Paulding County Sheriff’s Office.