In the early morning hours of February 19, 2016, Travalas Acres, 40, of Newnan, Georgia, was fatally shot while driving a silver Kia with three passengers. The vehicle crashed near the Target shopping center on Newnan Crossing Bypass after Acres was shot in the back of the head; he was found unresponsive in the driver’s seat and pronounced dead at the scene. The incident was first reported as a motor vehicle accident around 12:30 a.m.

Three men were seen fleeing the vehicle after the crash. Investigators identified and arrested Willie Louis Turner II, then 31. The two other passengers, Jonathan Allen and Jemelle Moss, testified that Turner was the shooter and said Moss had given Turner the .410-caliber revolver used in the shooting just before the group left for Atlanta. Turner also allegedly confessed to two fellow inmates while incarcerated.

Turner was charged with murder and, after trial, was convicted of malice murder and possession of a firearm by a convicted felon. The Georgia Supreme Court later affirmed the jury’s verdict in December 2022. Did anyone know Travalas, his routines, or the circumstances of that ride to Atlanta?