In the early morning hours of October 16, 2022, a party on St. Charles Drive in East Dublin, Georgia, ended in the fatal shooting of 24-year-old Cordeveon King. King, an African American man from Dublin, was at the gathering when an altercation with another guest, 25-year-old Nicholas Parks of Dublin, escalated. The Laurens County Sheriff’s Office was called at about 3:48 a.m.; officers pronounced King dead at the scene.

The Georgia Bureau of Investigation was asked to handle the homicide inquiry and reported that the shooting resulted from the dispute between King and Parks. The day after the incident, October 17, 2022, authorities arrested Parks and charged him with felony murder in connection with King’s death. King was described as a devoted father of three, a graduate of East Laurens High School, and employed at Walmart.

If anyone attended the party on St. Charles Drive or has information about the events leading up to the shooting, please share what you know.