Jimmie Sellers II, a 27-year-old Black man, was killed in Rome, Georgia, on February 28, 2016, after a confrontation that began the night before. Court records say the incident started when Briones Ladon Wofford approached Jimmie’s brother, Denier Floyd, outside a nightclub and produced a pistol. Sellers and Floyd left, later finding Wofford in a front yard in south Rome. Sellers struck Wofford, who then grabbed a fallen pistol and opened fire. One shot hit Mardell Blackburn in the head; Blackburn survived. Wofford chased Sellers around a parked car and fatally shot him in the head after Sellers asked whether Wofford was really going to kill him.

A Floyd County grand jury indicted Briones Ladon Wofford in May 2016. He was tried in May 2017, convicted on all counts including malice murder, and sentenced to life without the possibility of parole, with additional time for other offenses. An appeal arguing ineffective assistance of counsel was rejected by the Supreme Court of Georgia in April 2019, which did vacate one merged sentence but left the murder conviction intact.

Did anyone in Rome know Jimmie Sellers II or have information about that night?