Avery Birthrong, 25, was killed in the early morning hours of July 17, 2018, after a single bullet entered the back window of a car she was riding in and struck her in the head. The vehicle had been followed and fired upon near Rockbridge Road and Five Forks Trickum Road in Stone Mountain. The driver managed to reach a BP gas station on Lilburn-Stone Mountain Road in DeKalb County and call 911; police arrived around 4:20 a.m. and found Birthrong deceased in the passenger seat of a white sedan.

Two men who were in the car with her — her boyfriend Laurence Parks and John Durden — were questioned and cooperated; one was briefly taken into custody on an unrelated outstanding warrant. Witnesses in the car later identified the shooter as 29-year-old Visheslav Feder of Lilburn, who had allegedly threatened Birthrong and her boyfriend over a $60–$70 debt. Feder fled Georgia but was arrested in Johnson County, Arkansas, on July 21, 2018, extradited back to Georgia, and charged with felony murder and aggravated assault.

Was anyone in the Stone Mountain or Lilburn area that morning able to see a white sedan or the events leading up to the shooting?