In the spring of 2021 a 21-year-old man, Claudly Jean-Pierre Jr., was found with a gunshot wound to the chest on the evening of March 25 at a Citgo gas station at Fairburn Road and Benjamin E. Mays Drive in southwest Atlanta. He was conscious when police and paramedics arrived and was taken to Grady Memorial Hospital, where his injuries proved fatal.

Investigators concluded the shooting did not occur at the gas station. Evidence suggested Jean-Pierre had been shot at a nearby apartment complex on Fairburn Road, nearly a mile from where he was found; it is unclear whether he got to the Citgo on his own or was left there. The Atlanta Police Department released security images of a person of interest, and identified 20-year-old Isaiah Nichols as the primary suspect.

On June 14, 2021, members of the Atlanta Police Department Fugitive Unit arrested Nichols in Lithonia. He was charged with felony murder and aggravated assault and booked into the Fulton County Jail without bond. The motive for the shooting was not made public. Did anyone in the area see Jean-Pierre that evening or notice suspicious activity near the Fairburn Road apartments?