A dispute inside a Decatur Kroger on Memorial Drive ended with 25-year-old Decatur resident Jeremiah Flemister shot and killed in the store parking lot on August 7, 2018. Witnesses and surveillance footage captured a verbal altercation that escalated into violence; Flemister was pistol-whipped and then shot in the chest, according to an account in the arrest warrants.

Within two days the DeKalb County Sheriff’s Office Fugitive Unit, with K9 and SWAT support, arrested 27-year-old Dra James in Lithonia on August 9, 2018. He was booked into the DeKalb County Jail and charged with felony murder. Warrants indicated the argument may have involved gang affiliation, though it was unclear whether either man had gang ties.