On the evening of January 9, 2025, 35-year-old Jerrell Demonta Cullins was found with multiple gunshot wounds at the Park Vista apartments on Fisher Road in the Custer-McDonough-Guice neighborhood of southeast Atlanta. Emergency services arrived just before 10:45 p.m.; Cullins was taken to a nearby hospital and died shortly after arrival. He lived in Lithonia, Georgia.

A funeral service was held for Cullins on January 21, 2025, at St. Paul AME Church, and he was buried at South-View Cemetery. The Atlanta Police Department continued investigating the shooting for months after the killing.

On July 11, 2025, 34-year-old Jonathan Lawson was arrested with assistance from the Paulding County Sheriff’s Office and charged with murder, aggravated assault, and several weapons offenses; he was booked into the Fulton County jail without bond. If anyone knew Jerrell Cullins or saw activity at Park Vista around January 9, 2025, please come forward with information.