On October 3, 2017, 25-year-old Antonio Veal was shot and killed in the second-floor breezeway of the Garden Inn and Suites on Shannon Parkway in Union City, Georgia. Surveillance cameras at the motel recorded the encounter. The confrontation began when Diontye Scott, then 38, accused Veal of involvement in an armed robbery at the same motel about a week earlier — an incident that had left Scott’s girlfriend shot. Veal repeatedly denied any role in that prior crime.

Scott fled but was pursued by College Park police; during the chase he discarded marijuana and the handgun. Officers recovered the weapon and ballistics testing linked it to Veal’s killing. Scott was tried in Fulton County Superior Court, convicted of murder, felony murder, aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, and possession of a firearm during the commission of a felony, and sentenced to life without parole plus 35 years.