On the morning of December 31, 2018, 22-year-old Maya Mitchell left the Decatur apartment she shared with her boyfriend to meet a man named Malik to buy a small amount of marijuana. When she did not return, she was reported missing. Later that New Year’s Eve morning a walker in Glen Emerald Park in DeKalb County found her body on a sidewalk near the lake; she had been shot once in the side of the head.

Detectives focused on 25-year-old Malik Nunally after text messages showed a meeting was planned and cell tower records placed his phone near the park around the time of the killing. An arrest warrant for Nunally was issued in mid-January 2019 while he was already in custody on unrelated charges. At trial in September 2021 a jury convicted Nunally of murder, felony murder, aggravated assault and weapons offenses, and a judge sentenced him to life plus five years.

Did anyone who knew Maya or saw her in Decatur around New Year’s Eve 2018 notice anything unusual that morning?