Thanksgiving morning, November 23, 2017, turned deadly for 32-year-old Andricus Harris in DeKalb County. Harris and his brother stopped at a Chevron on Bouldercrest Road to put air in a flat tire. While at the air pump an unknown man approached and an argument began for reasons that remain unclear. The confrontation continued into the convenience store, where the assailant followed Harris and shot him multiple times in the chest. Harris’s brother, who had been by the car, heard the shots and found Harris on the floor; he began CPR but Harris died at the scene.

Surveillance footage from the store showed the shooter, described as a bearded male about 5 feet 11 inches tall, wearing a white Adidas shirt and red and white Adidas pants, who fled in a black vehicle. On December 6, 2017, 37-year-old Shannon Jackson of Decatur was arrested and charged with murder in connection with the killing and held without bond. In July 2019 Harris’s daughter filed a civil suit against the Chevron owners alleging inadequate security at the location.