A dispute over a marijuana transaction in Waycross, Georgia, ended with 21-year-old Randy ’RJ’ Killens Jr. found shot and bleeding to death in the door jamb of a car on April 5, 2018. Emergency responders attempted to revive him but his injuries were fatal. An autopsy showed a gunshot to the thigh severed his femoral artery, causing massive blood loss.

Investigators focused on two people: Latif Arthur Lewis and his then-girlfriend, Cynthia Rowell. The evening before the killing Lewis had reportedly been beaten by Killens; Lewis later sent a threatening photo of the house where Killens’s young son lived. The next day Rowell drove Lewis to a meeting. According to her testimony, Lewis approached Killens, shot him in the leg, then returned to the car and ordered Rowell to drive away while threatening her and her family.

Rowell was arrested first and charged with murder; she later pleaded guilty to aggravated assault as part of a cooperation deal and testified against Lewis. Lewis was arrested after a weeklong search, indicted on malice murder, felony murder and aggravated assault, convicted by a jury in December 2019, and sentenced to life without parole. Does anyone have information about the night of April 4–5, 2018, or about Killens’s whereabouts in Waycross leading up to the shooting?