A Friday evening shooting in the Sylvan Hills neighborhood of Atlanta left Henry Evans dead on August 1, 2025. Atlanta police were called about 5:52 p.m. to a strip mall on Lakewood Avenue SW and found the 52-year-old man with a gunshot wound; he was pronounced dead at the scene. The Fulton County Medical Examiner’s Office later confirmed his identity.

Friends described Evans as someone who kept a positive demeanor at work and who cherished his family. If anyone was in the Lakewood Avenue SW area that evening or has information about Henry Evans’s death, please contact investigators.