In the early morning hours of a Tuesday in July 2025 a passerby found a man shot multiple times in the parking lot of Cannon United Methodist Church on Webb Gin House Road in Snellville, Georgia. The victim was identified as 28-year-old Oscar Alexis Cruz of Lawrenceville. Police said the church had no connection to the attack.

Investigators say the killing followed a home invasion and kidnapping at Cruz’s residence on Gin Blossom Circle. Several people allegedly forced their way in, held Cruz and his wife at gunpoint, stole money and drugs, told Cruz’s wife to kiss him goodbye, bound Cruz’s hands with duct tape, and forced him from the home. Cruz was later driven a short distance and shot seventeen times in the church parking lot.

Three men — Raymond Cooper, Michael Golden, and Javon Wilson — were arrested and charged in connection with the slaying; charges include malice murder, felony murder, kidnapping, armed robbery, and false imprisonment. Reported motive centers on a drug transaction that went wrong. Anyone with information about Cruz, the home invasion, or what led to that July morning is asked to come forward.