I was the coroner for this case as well. As a Coroner, my job is to determine cause and manner, and to involve the GBI Medical Examiners Office if the circumstances require. I did not keep up with the investigation as to the perpetrators, and I’m shocked and dismayed at the inability of the law-enforcement agencies to uncover Sufficient evidence to hold those allegedly responsible, responsible

Seventeen-year-old Javier Eduardo Cordova-Mobley of Brunswick, Georgia, died after a shooting on April 17, 2021, along Cypress Mill Road in Glynn County. Police were called to reports of shots fired near Cypress Mill Road and Golden Isles Parkway and found him unresponsive with a head laceration and a single gunshot wound to his upper torso; he was taken for treatment but the wound proved fatal.

Prosecutors say the incident began at a cookout in the Coastal Crest Suites apartment complex after Javier, who was reportedly intoxicated and had shown up uninvited, tripped and knocked over a grill. Bria Nicole Register is said to have taken a handgun from him while he was on the ground. The confrontation continued; prosecutors allege Javier went to an apartment to retrieve the gun, was led away at least once by Michael Howard, then was pistol-whipped at the side of Cypress Mill Road and the gun discharged, striking him. Authorities say Register and Howard left him at the roadside and Howard later returned and found him dead.

Arrests were announced April 18, 2021. The case later resolved with guilty pleas and sentencing in Glynn County Superior Court. Outside the legal outcome, friends and family remembered Javier for skateboarding, writing, and his loyalty to those close to him. Does anyone who knew Javi or was in Brunswick that morning have information about what happened at the apartment complex?