The body of 31-year-old Curtis Author Pitts of Cartersville was found at the entrance to the Jackson Glenn Subdivision on Highway 36 West in Jackson, Georgia, after a 911 call at about 6:13 a.m. on Friday, September 21, 2018. Pitts had sustained multiple gunshot wounds, and investigators concluded the killing likely occurred elsewhere before his body was left on the roadside. There appeared to be no connection between Pitts and the subdivision where he was found.

Butts County investigators and the Georgia Bureau of Investigation worked with detectives from Bartow County, and within a day two Cartersville residents, Steven Alford Jacobs and Emmanuel James Nesbitt, were arrested in Bartow County. Authorities allege an apparent robbery motive: that the suspects learned Pitts had drugs and cash, shot him, took the drugs and money, and abandoned his body. Jacobs and Nesbitt were charged with murder and aggravated assault and were to face drug charges in Bartow County before arraignment on the Butts County charges.

If anyone knew Curtis Pitts or has information about his movements in the days before September 21, 2018, please come forward.