On the morning of August 26, 2022, a fatal shooting at the Prominence Apartments in Buckhead killed 30-year-old Nader Farhat. Police were called to the corner of Lenox and Piedmont roads around 2 a.m. after reports of gunfire and 911 calls indicating someone had been shot. Officers found a man and a woman in the parking deck; the man, identified as 40-year-old Christopher Cyprian, had a gunshot wound and was taken to Grady Memorial Hospital for surgery before being booked. The woman, 44-year-old Jameka Bagnerise, was detained, questioned at police headquarters, and later arrested.

Farhat was found dead inside his apartment from a gunshot wound and was later identified by the Fulton County Medical Examiner’s Office. Investigators described the incident as a botched robbery linked to narcotics. Both Cyprian and Bagnerise have been charged with murder and armed robbery. Farhat, an artist and engineer, was remembered by family and community as kind, loving, and hardworking.