Joseph Nashun Harden, 20, was fatally shot outside his apartment at the Harvard Place Apartments on Hillandale Drive in Lithonia, Georgia. First responders found him in the early hours of a Wednesday with a gunshot wound to the stomach; he was taken to Grady Memorial Hospital and later died of his injuries.

Harden’s mother, who was inside their apartment when the shooting occurred, reported hearing several shots directly in front of their residence. She ran outside and found her son clutching his stomach and saw a man she knew only as Quan running from the scene. When asked if that man had shot him, Harden, unable to speak, gestured toward where the man had fled.

The mother told DeKalb County police that Harden had been with the person known as Quan during the previous day and into the morning of the shooting, but she could not provide any further identifying information. No arrests had been reported at the time of the initial account and the investigation remains ongoing. If anyone has information about the man known as Quan or the events that led to Harden’s death, please come forward.