In the early morning hours of December 15, 2022, a 911 call from 1077 Friendship Church Road in Garfield, Georgia, reported a house fire and named 45-year-old Nathan Reuben Street as the person who had set it. Firefighters were being dispatched when the caller’s husband, 29-year-old Wesley Melton, and her father-in-law, 58-year-old Gregory Melton, went looking for Street themselves.

The two men found Street a short distance away on St. Paul Road and tried to detain him until law enforcement arrived. A struggle followed and Wesley Melton shot Nathan Reuben Street; Street was dead when Emanuel County deputies and Georgia Bureau of Investigation agents arrived. Earlier that night Street had been at the Meltons’ home, an encounter captured on video, and deputies secured warrants charging him with prowling and criminal trespass.

As of December 2022 the GBI described the investigation as active and said the file would be sent to the Middle Judicial Circuit District Attorney’s Office when complete; no arrests had been announced and there have been no public updates about charges. Does anyone have information about the events at the house that night or the confrontation on St. Paul Road?