Terrance Vanderrick Dent Jr., 25, was shot in the 3000 block of Fairburn Avenue in Macon, Georgia, in the early morning hours of May 29, 2014. His body was later moved and discovered on Granada Terrace about 3:38 a.m.; he was taken to the Medical Center of Central Georgia and died roughly half an hour after the shooting. Known to some as Heavy D, Dent’s death was later linked to two other killings on or near Fairburn Avenue when the next day the bodies of 23-year-old Arika Jarrell and 32-year-old Ralph Heard were found in a vehicle behind a residence on the same street.

Investigators concluded the three deaths were connected and occurred during what they described as a robbery gone wrong. Bibb County investigators identified several persons of interest, and four men were eventually arrested in connection with the triple homicide: Rayshawn Reanaldo Lucas, Quintavious Isaih Everett, Vincent Lewis, and Lewis Monroe Cheney II. By February 2019, three of the men had pleaded guilty to various charges and received prison terms; the case against Lewis Monroe Cheney II remained pending at that time.