On the evening of March 16, 2000, Deputy Sheriff Ricky Leon Kinchen, a nine-year veteran of the Fulton County Sheriff’s Office, was ambushed in Atlanta’s West End while serving a warrant. Kinchen and his partner, Deputy Aldranon English, had gone to a workplace, found no one, and were checking the surrounding area when they approached a vehicle and an individual standing beside it. The man was ordered to show his hands, then produced a .223 caliber rifle and opened fire. Both deputies were struck; Kinchen suffered wounds to his abdomen and leg in areas not covered by his ballistic vest and was taken to a local hospital, where he died the next day, March 17, 2000. Deputy English was critically wounded but survived the attack.

The shooter was identified as Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin, formerly known as H. Rap Brown. He fled the scene and was captured several days later in Alabama. Al-Amin was tried for Kinchen’s murder and the assault on Deputy English; on March 9, 2002, a jury found him guilty on multiple counts, and on March 13, 2002, he was sentenced to life without parole.

Did anyone in the West End on March 16, 2000, have information about the stop or the moments before the shooting?