Joyce Rochelle Yates, 37, was fatally shot and found in a parking lot of a largely abandoned strip mall near Metropolitan Parkway and Lakewood Avenue in southwest Atlanta in the early hours of October 14, 2021. A mother of five, she was remembered for her great sense of humor; her sudden death shocked family and community members.

The Atlanta Police Department led an investigation with the Active Criminal Enforcement unit, Georgia State Patrol, Gangs unit, and Zone 3 police. One day after Yates’s body was found, police arrested 17-year-old Nigel Sherrod Andrews of Atlanta and charged him as an adult with felony murder, possession of a firearm during the commission of a felony, aggravated assault, and carjacking. He was booked into the Fulton County Jail held without bond and the case remains in the legal process.

Does anyone have information about Joyce’s movements that night or who might have seen her near Metropolitan Parkway and Lakewood Avenue?