Derricor Jaquan Jenkins, a 23-year-old Black man from Decatur, was found with a gunshot wound to the chest on December 27, 2021, near Boring Road along Flat Shoals Parkway in DeKalb County. He was dressed in pajama pants and a sweatshirt and was just over a mile from his family’s home when discovered. He was taken to a hospital but did not survive.

Jenkins’s family said he was hearing impaired and had been wearing his hearing aid that night, a detail they said made his death especially painful as they try to imagine his final hours and how he ended up alone on the sidewalk. Relatives described him as someone who dreamed of becoming a clothing designer.

If anyone knew Jenkins, saw him that night, or has information about violence along Flat Shoals Parkway on December 27, 2021, please come forward.