Shymel DaShon Drinks, 23, was found shot to death inside his parked car under an I-20 overpass on Windsor Street in Atlanta’s Mechanicsville neighborhood. The body was discovered on March 14, 2022; he had sustained multiple gunshot wounds and was pronounced dead at the scene.

Police describe the killing as targeted and gang-related. Investigators say suspects in another vehicle pulled alongside Drinks’ car at a stoplight and fired into it. Three suspects were described as members of a street gang along with Drinks. Within days two men, Shannon Jackson, 29, and Quamarvious Nichols, 27, were arrested on felony murder and criminal street gang charges after a police chase in which weapons were reportedly discarded. A third suspect, 27-year-old Miles Nichols, also had murder charges filed but was not immediately apprehended.

The shooting has been tied by prosecutors to a broader gang feud and was listed among overt acts in the ongoing RICO case connected to the YSL prosecution; one defendant was specifically charged in Drinks’ murder. What can anyone who knew Drinks or who was in Mechanicsville that night add to the timeline or the identities of those involved?