On February 11, 2017, 18-year-old Jalen Flournoy was shot in the chest at about 2:40 p.m. at the Eastwyck Apartments off Candler Road in Decatur, Georgia. A witness reported that Flournoy and the witness were approached by three or four men wearing black masks; one was armed. The men demanded Flournoy’s backpack. When he refused, he was shot. The assailants took the backpack, later estimated to be worth about $10, and fled. Officers found Flournoy still alive; an officer began CPR and he was taken to Grady Memorial Hospital, where he later died of his injuries.

Investigators from the DeKalb County Sheriff’s Fugitive Unit developed two teenage suspects. Warrants were issued on February 16, 2017. On February 17, 18-year-old Jamarcus Akeem White was arrested in Atlanta. A second suspect, 19-year-old Destin Robinson, was arrested February 27 in Stone Mountain; jail records list Robinson as living on the same street as the apartment complex. Did anyone in the area see the masked men or recognize the backpack taken from Jalen?