On the morning of February 5, 2025, 21-year-old Jabril Abdul Blount was shot multiple times while inside a vehicle at the Windy Hill Village shopping center near U.S. 41 in Marietta, Georgia. Cobb County Police officers found Blount grievously wounded at 2359 Windy Hill Road and he was pronounced dead at the scene; the shooting was reported to have occurred about 10:42 a.m.

A suspect, 53-year-old Eric Townsend of Alabama, surrendered to the Smyrna Police Department shortly after the incident and was transferred to Cobb County custody. He was charged with felony murder and aggravated assault and was being held at the Cobb County Jail without bond. Authorities have not disclosed a motive or said whether Townsend and Blount knew each other.

Blount lived in Roswell and was born December 3, 2003, in Atlantic City, New Jersey. He had attended the University of Alabama and later enrolled at Lincoln Technical School to train as an electrician; family and friends remembered him as kind, intelligent, and close to his siblings. Did anyone who knew Jabril see him in the Marietta area that morning or have information about his movements before the shooting?