John Alton Allen Jr., a 36-year-old resident of Rome, Georgia, was fatally shot on the evening of June 16, 2018. The Rome Police Department identified a suspect shortly after the shooting and issued an alert for Grady Harper, wanted on felony murder and aggravated assault charges; authorities warned he should be considered armed and dangerous and reported him seen in a black 2006 Chevrolet Cobalt and frequenting motels along Martha Berry Boulevard.

Grady Harper, Jr. was later arrested and tried for Allen’s murder. A jury convicted Harper of malice murder and related offenses. Harper appealed, arguing among other points that the state had not disproved his justification defense beyond a reasonable doubt, but the Georgia Supreme Court affirmed the conviction.

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