On the late evening of August 16, 2014, 17-year-old Wayne Edwards was shot in the back while seated behind the wheel of a car on the 1200 block of Elliott Street in the Carver Heights neighborhood of Savannah, Georgia. He had pulled over to give a friend a ride; two girls were in the back seat. A verbal dispute with another teenager who had had a tense exchange with Edwards a week earlier escalated when that individual approached the vehicle and fired five shots into the car. Edwards was taken to Memorial University Medical Center but died from rapid blood loss.

Police identified 18-year-old Jo’Andre Robbins as the primary suspect and sought public help locating him. Robbins was found at a residence on Betty Drive and taken into custody on March 5, 2015. He was charged with murder; his defense argued he believed Edwards was reaching for a weapon, and a gun later was recovered in Edwards’s girlfriend’s purse. The jury convicted Robbins of murder and he received a life sentence. Michael Thompson was also arrested in Augusta and charged as a party to the crime.

If anyone knew Wayne, his movements that night, or has information about the confrontation leading up to the shooting, please share what is known.