Frederick Leon London IV, a 37-year-old African American man from Decatur, Georgia, was shot and killed on the evening of October 11, 2021, following a meeting at a fast-food restaurant on Memorial Drive. The meeting was reported to have been for a drug transaction that turned violent, ending in London’s death.

The DeKalb County Sheriff’s Department investigated and arrested 22-year-old Quavon Shenard Battle of Decatur on October 20, 2021. An arrest warrant charged Battle with London’s murder; he was held without bond at the DeKalb County Jail pending further proceedings. London’s family held a funeral service on October 22, 2021.

What details about the encounter at Memorial Drive have not been publicly released and who else, if anyone, may have information about the transaction and shooting?