On the morning of July 1, 2016, 21-year-old Gannon Rooks was shot outside the Anu Food Mart near College Park in the Atlanta area. Responding officers found Rooks with gunshot wounds to his face and chest; he was taken to Grady Memorial Hospital and later died of his injuries.

Police reported Rooks had been involved in a shootout with another 21-year-old man, who was shot in the neck, fled the scene in a white vehicle, and was later treated at Atlanta Medical Center in critical condition. Investigators said the confrontation appeared linked to an attempted robbery connected to a drug transaction. Witnesses also said a man arrived after the shooting, picked up Rooks’s weapon from the ground, and left in a vehicle; that person’s identity remains unknown.

No information indicates any arrests were made in connection with Rooks’s death. If anyone has information about the shooting or the man who removed the weapon, please share what is known.