Lawrence Roberts Jr., 25, of Atlanta, Georgia, was fatally shot on the evening of Monday, March 18, 2019, the same day he was released from jail. Roberts had told his mother, Kathy Jackson, he was going to a party across the street and would return; his parents had planned to take him to the Gateway Center the next morning. Officers who answered a call at about 10 p.m. found him with a gunshot wound to the head at a house party in the 1800 block of Newman Place in northwest Atlanta.

Police arrested 20-year-old Tahli Williams at the scene without incident; Williams was booked on a murder charge and taken to the Fulton County Jail. Investigators said the people involved appeared to know one another, but the specific motive was not immediately clear and the investigation was ongoing.