Rene Betancourt was 18 when he was shot and killed in Scottdale, Georgia, on November 28, 2018. A student at Druid Hill High School, he had fallen asleep in the passenger seat of a friend’s car after spending the day together. The friend left the vehicle briefly; when he returned he saw a man, later identified as Jaquez Emmanuel Cooper, rummaging through the car. Cooper fled, and after the pair drove off Betancourt woke to find his cellphone missing.

They went back to the Oak Forest Apartments to recover the phone and encountered Cooper with two other individuals. An altercation followed and Betancourt was cornered against a wall and shot in the face. He was taken to Grady Memorial Hospital, where he died of his injuries. A 16-year-old was arrested on December 21, 2018, in connection with the killing; that suspect was later identified as Jaquez Emmanuel Cooper.

If anyone was at Oak Forest Apartments on November 28, 2018, or has information about the confrontation that night, please share what you know.