On November 27, 2018, the bodies of 3-year-old JaCeiden Roberts and his father, 41-year-old Joseph JoJo Banks, were found in the driveway of a vacant house on Stuart Drive in Columbus, Georgia. A neighbor discovered them about 8:30 a.m. Both had been fatally shot. JaCeiden was Black and three years old at the time.

Police say the pair were last seen about 1:00 a.m. November 27 getting into a white 2004 Ford F-150 at a motel on Victory Drive with an unidentified man later believed to be the suspect. The truck was later recovered abandoned in the Wynnton neighborhood on Henry Avenue. A detective testified at a preliminary hearing that motel surveillance showed a man lifting the child into the front seat between himself and the father, and that six shell casings were found in the truck’s cab; authorities believe the shootings occurred at the motel and the bodies were moved afterward.

A clear motive was not reported. Did anyone in the Columbus area see that Ford F-150 or recognize the man seen with JaCeiden and his father?