On the evening of April 27, 2018, 19-year-old Tyon Demeko Gorman, a Black male, was fatally shot outside a shopping center on Bells Ferry Road in Marietta, Georgia. Emergency crews found him shortly before 6:30 p.m. with at least one gunshot wound; he was taken to Kennestone Hospital and later died. Witnesses reported a white vehicle with a rear spoiler leaving the area after the shooting.

Marietta police identified two teenage suspects. Eighteen-year-old Mekhi Ahmad Hilali was arrested on May 2, 2018, and initially faced felony murder and related charges. Seventeen-year-old Je'marquis Wright was sought for questioning and was arrested on May 15 by Marietta detectives and the FBI’s Safe Streets Gang Task Force; Wright was charged with felony murder, aggravated battery, aggravated assault with intent to murder, and a violation of the street gang and terrorism prevention act. Authorities said weapons and narcotics were found with Wright and at that point they believed all suspects were in custody.

In June 2018 the Cobb County District Attorney’s Office dropped all murder charges against Hilali after surveillance footage produced an alibi showing him at a gas station in another county at the time of the shooting; he remained subject to unrelated drug charges.

Did anyone in the Marietta area see the white vehicle with a rear spoiler on April 27, 2018?