A birthday celebration at Fletcher’s Place Bar and Grill in the Gallery at South DeKalb mall ended in tragedy on the evening of June 10, 2022. Daletavious McGuire, 48, was at the party with family for his mother’s 71st birthday when an argument broke out after a man reportedly brushed against the fiancée of one of the attendees. The argument escalated and a man identified as James Elderidge Scott, 49, produced a handgun and opened fire.

Four people were struck; McGuire was fatally wounded and three other men were left in serious to critical condition. Surveillance captured a bald man walking out to the parking lot after the shooting, and several cars there were also struck by gunfire. An anonymous tip to Crime Stoppers of Greater Atlanta named James E. Scott, and investigators say DNA from a straw hat and neon vest found near the scene linked Scott to the attack. He was arrested on June 28, 2022.

Are there readers who were at Fletcher’s Place that night or who have information about the sequence of events leading up to the shooting?