On the early morning of May 13, 2020, Dequario Antwan Thomas, 40, of Albany, Georgia, was fatally shot while getting ice at the corner of Independence Drive and Sylvester Highway. He was with a woman named Kenya Moffett when a red truck turned onto Independence Drive, Thomas waved at the vehicle and shots were fired. Moffett said Thomas ducked and appeared to run as she moved to the driver’s seat and drove away, later taking him to Phoebe Putney Memorial Hospital.

Investigators described the shooting as unprovoked. On the same day, warrants were issued for 33-year-old Christopher Reginald Cooks, who was arrested and charged with murder and aggravated assault. A second suspect, 19-year-old Otisa Thomas, was later arrested and charged with murder and aggravated assault; she was reportedly with Cooks that night. More arrests were anticipated. Dequario Thomas was remembered as a hardworking father of three daughters and a grandfather to three grandchildren who had worked at Sanderson Farms and Church’s Chicken.

Does anyone have information about that early-morning intersection or the red truck seen turning onto Independence Drive?