Herman Gordon Jr., an 18-year-old Black male and recent Huffman High School graduate, was fatally shot while driving on the afternoon of Saturday, July 28, 2018. He was behind the wheel of his silver sedan on the Elton B. Stephens Expressway near the First Avenue North and Carraway Boulevard interchange when the shooting occurred around 2:15 p.m. First responders found Gordon inside his vehicle with a fatal gunshot wound; he was pronounced dead at the scene.

Police quickly opened a homicide investigation and said evidence suggested Gordon was likely targeted intentionally rather than killed in a random act or road rage. Investigators initially had no description of the shooter or the vehicle used and asked the public for help. His death was recorded as the city’s 62nd homicide that year. No arrests or suspects have been reported in the years after the killing, and the identity of who shot Herman Gordon Jr. remains unresolved.

If anyone has information about the shooting or remembers seeing activity near the Elton B. Stephens Expressway around 2:15 p.m. on July 28, 2018, please come forward.