A planned ambush in Fort Oglethorpe ended with 19-year-old Jaylon Alexander Eberhardt shot dead on the evening of September 23, 2021. Tensions between Eberhardt and 20-year-old Keonte Ragland had escalated after a prior physical fight, and members of the Ragland household arranged to lure him back to the Catoosa Gardens Apartments. Eberhardt received a Snapchat message from 16-year-old Deonna Ragland arranging to meet at the apartment playground; she and others tracked his location and provided it to two men who lay in wait.

After being told Deonna would not come out, Eberhardt turned to walk home and was followed. He was shot as he neared his own apartment complex, managed to cry for help, and collapsed on the doorstep of a Catoosa County law enforcement officer’s home, where he died. Investigators recovered the weapon and linked participants to the plot; one participant confessed and later pleaded guilty, and others were convicted at trial and received life sentences.