A dispute that began inside a Remerton bar on the night of May 27 spilled into the CBC Bank parking lot across from Lucky’s Bar in the early hours of May 28, 2021, and ended in a double homicide. Jamar Antwan Walton, 21, of Valdosta, and 23-year-old Sherrod Gore were found with gunshot wounds around 1:45 a.m.; Gore was pronounced dead at the scene and Walton was taken to a local hospital where he later died.

The Georgia Bureau of Investigation took over the probe and within a week investigators identified and arrested 20-year-old Ronald Welsh of Valdosta during a traffic stop on June 4, 2021. Welsh was charged with two counts each of malice murder, felony murder and aggravated assault, plus firearm offenses. Nineteen-year-old Shaniya Brooks, the driver of the vehicle in which Welsh was riding, was charged with hindering apprehension of a fugitive.

Are there witnesses or anyone who was at Lucky’s Bar that night who can shed more light on how the altercation escalated into deadly gunfire?