Christopher Johnathan Dean, 33, from Lithia Springs, Georgia, was lured to an Atlanta home in the fall of 2016 under the pretense of a drug transaction. The invitation was a trap after it was discovered that Dean had once served as a police witness in a California case. Over the course of more than an hour he was tortured, beaten with a two-by-four and a crowbar, and sustained a depressed skull injury before being shot twice in the back of the head. His body was placed in a car trunk; the vehicle was later abandoned in the H.E. Holmes MARTA station parking lot instead of being burned as initially planned.

Investigators linked the killing to members of the Gangster Disciples and arrested multiple suspects. Several men were convicted of murder and related gang charges; the ringleader Christopher Lockett, along with Xavier Gibson, Quatez Clark, Joshua Rooks, and Jasper Green, received life sentences. Other defendants, including Orlando Gibson, Shakur Wright, and Lamar Almon, were also prosecuted, with various pleas and sentences recorded.

Who knew Christopher Dean or saw anything at the H.E. Holmes MARTA station parking lot that fall of 2016?