Jerry Lee Davis Jr., 31, was shot to death at his home on Oglethorpe Road in Jesup, Georgia, on January 13, 2021. Davis lived in Wayne County for about a decade, worked as a driver supervisor for McDaniel Supply Company, and was described as a kind-hearted husband and father to three children.

Investigators from the Georgia Bureau of Investigation and the Wayne County Sheriff’s Office later tied the killing into a wider criminal enterprise and another homicide. In August 2021 authorities arrested Christopher Reginald Sumlin Jr. on charges that include murder, felony murder, aggravated assault, cruelty to children, and burglary in connection with Davis’s death. An indictment later named Sumlin and a former Smith State Prison corrections officer, Jessica Jean Gerling, in the killing. Gerling was then killed in Long County about five months after Davis’s death. The case against Sumlin in Davis’s homicide remained pending.

If anyone knew Jerry Davis, his movements that night, or has information about the attack, please share what is known with investigators.