Grant Patrick Hendrickson was 22 and a Mercer University student when he and his 19-year-old girlfriend, Michele Cartagena, were killed at a secluded overlook called the Point above Lake Juliette in Monroe County, Georgia. The couple were parked in Cartagena’s car in January 1995 when a Honda CRX pulled up. The driver, Andrew Allen Cook, opened fire from about forty feet with an AR-15, firing an initial barrage of fourteen shots and striking both victims. He then moved closer and fired five additional shots from a nine-millimeter Ruger. Both Hendrickson and Cartagena were killed. After the shooting Cook dragged Cartagena from the car, partially undressed her, and spat on her before leaving the scene.

The case remained unsolved for nearly two years until investigators sought to speak with Andrew Allen Cook. His father, John Cook, contacted him and Andrew confessed to the killings; the father later testified at trial. In February 1997 Cook was indicted on two counts of malice murder, and a jury found him guilty in March 1998. Does anyone have information about Grant’s life at Mercer or who might have seen the couple at the Point that night?