On the afternoon of Thursday, February 25, 2021, Anthony Collins, a 44-year-old Black man, was found dead from a gunshot wound in a parking lot in the 1500 block of Riverside Parkway in Lawrenceville, Georgia, near a popular dog park and an elementary school. Collins had been walking his Jack Russell puppies shortly before officers arrived around 3 p.m. and located him outside a car.

Investigators initially considered the attack potentially random and canvassed the neighborhood. Home security footage captured a person of interest walking through a yard minutes before the shooting; police said the man had a skinny build, stood about 5 feet 10 inches, and often carried a pole, stick, or other long object. Tips identified the person in the video as 70-year-old Lawrenceville resident Stanley Nathaniel Elliott, and officers arrested him the next day on felony murder, aggravated assault, and weapon-possession charges. Police reported finding the gun hidden inside a motorboat in Elliott’s garage and noted a prior December 2020 confrontation between the men over Collins’ puppies, when Elliott reportedly tried to strike the dogs with a metal rod.

Does anyone in the area remember the December 2020 confrontation or have information about what happened on February 25, 2021?