Vernon E. Harper Jr., 30, was fatally shot on the evening of May 14, 2021, inside a home in the 2100 block of Lang Street in southwest Atlanta. Harper, who had moved to Atlanta in 2016 from Evanston, Illinois, was visiting a friend when an argument in the house escalated and a firearm was produced. He sustained multiple gunshot wounds and was pronounced dead at the scene.

A woman who was in the home was also shot in the leg and taken to the hospital in stable condition. Harper had started a music label called Dred Gang Music and was a father to a son and a daughter; family remembered him as caring, self-motivated and determined to make a positive impact. On June 3, 2021, Atlanta police identified and federal authorities arrested 45-year-old James McClendon; he was charged with felony murder and with possessing a firearm during the commission of a felony and booked into the Fulton County Jail.

Did anyone in the neighborhood or the music community know Harper’s movements or the circumstances that led to that argument?