A dice game on a June afternoon in Atlanta turned deadly when a dispute over alleged cheating escalated to gunfire, killing 27-year-old Selemon Belai. The shooting occurred June 3, 2014, at Auburn Avenue and Bell Street in northeast Atlanta. Witnesses say an argument among acquaintances led Dexter Beard, then 29, to draw a weapon and fire multiple shots. Belai was hit five times in the back and legs and later died; Beard and three other men at the scene were also shot but survived.

Beard was arrested after the investigation and in 2015 a Fulton County jury convicted him of murder and imposed a life sentence plus five years. In October 2018 a judge granted Beard a new trial, and the Georgia Supreme Court later affirmed that decision. Does anyone have additional information about the events that afternoon or knew Selemon Belai?