Jerry Louis Walton Jr., 44, died in Columbus, Georgia, on August 13, 2022, after a crash and vehicle fire outside Village Square Apartments on Boxwood Boulevard. Officers were dispatched about 9:54 p.m.; firefighters put out a blaze in a Ford Ranger that had smashed through a brick wall of an apartment unit and found Walton’s burned body inside. The scene produced shell casings, and the case was turned over to the Homicide Unit. The coroner pronounced Walton dead at 10:40 p.m.

Police later identified Daquavius Anthony, then 16, as a suspect and obtained a murder warrant under Georgia Senate Bill 440, which permits certain juveniles to be charged as adults in serious felonies. Subsequent reporting said Anthony, by then 17, pleaded guilty to voluntary manslaughter, using a gun to commit a felony, and being a minor with a handgun, and received a 26-year sentence. The reports say he admitted firing the shot that killed Walton, which set off the crash and fire.

Are there witnesses or residents who remember activity at Village Square Apartments that night or who saw the pickup before the crash?