A burst of gunfire on the evening of October 9, 2025, ended the life of 20-year-old Saikou Dem in Atlanta’s West End. Officers found Dem, a Black male, on Ralph David Abernathy Boulevard after a 9 p.m. call reporting the shooting near the Mall West End. Emergency medical personnel transported him to a nearby hospital, where he later died of his gunshot wound.

Shortly after, a 21-year-old man arrived at a different hospital with a gunshot wound to his leg; investigators concluded he was connected to the same incident. The Atlanta Police Department homicide unit canvassed the area and sought surveillance footage and witnesses, but by mid-October 2025 no arrests had been announced and no suspects or motive had been released.

Does anyone who was in the West End that night or who has dashcam or surveillance footage know anything that could help investigators?