On the morning of December 12, 2014, 25-year-old D’Monte Brown was shot and killed while walking a familiar shortcut through woods near the Home Depot on New Snapfinger Woods Drive at Wesley Chapel Road in DeKalb County. He was on his way to meet his boss for a ride to work at about 8 a.m. Police found Brown with multiple gunshot wounds, including a fatal wound to the head, in a wooded area roughly 150 yards from the store.

Investigators and family quickly moved away from the idea that the killing was random. Relatives and police said they believed Brown knew his attacker; a DeKalb County captain said a person of interest was being sought even before an arrest was announced. Two days after the shooting, on December 14, 2014, Michael Bargainer was arrested in connection with Brown’s murder during a multi-agency operation that cleared a backlog of warrants.

Brown worked for Alpha Evictions and left behind a 5-year-old daughter and a 1-year-old son. Does anyone who knew D’Monte or his routines have information that could help explain what led to this killing?