A reunion block party for former Bowen Homes residents on James Jackson Parkway in Atlanta on the morning of July 25, 2021, ended in gunfire and the death of 38-year-old Gabriel Parker. Parker’s family says he was trying to de-escalate a fight when shots were fired in a crowd of about 1,000 people. An Atlanta police officer, Christopher Diss, was on scene and discharged his weapon after hearing gunfire.

Two handguns were recovered and another man was wounded and taken to a hospital. Initially it was unclear who fired the shot that killed Parker and the Georgia Bureau of Investigation was called in to examine the officer-involved shooting. Later reporting notes an Alford plea and sentence for another participant, Keith Lofton, and that Officer Diss resigned from the Atlanta Police Department in September 2022, developments that kept the family waiting for answers.

Does anyone who attended that reunion or has information about the shooting want to come forward?