A homecoming afterparty in Elberton, Georgia, ended in a mass shooting on the night of October 12, 2024. Fifteen-year-old Bry’shun Treviyus O’Brian Jordan, a student at Hart Academy, was critically wounded at a nightclub on Evergreen Drive, airlifted to AnMed Hospital in Anderson, South Carolina, and later died of his injuries. Seven others, ages 15 to 19 plus a 41-year-old, were also injured; five were treated and released from Elbert Memorial Hospital and two required further care in Athens.

The Elbert County Sheriff’s Department and the Georgia Bureau of Investigation, with the Elbert County Coroner’s Office and the GBI Medical Examiner’s Office, led the investigation. In the weeks after the shooting, eight people were arrested and charged in connection with the incident. Arrested suspects include 18-year-old Jarquavious Scott of Anderson; Destanne Mathis, 20; Aanidras Parks, 18; Jerimiyah Hughes, 19; and Desmond Latimer, 18, all from Anderson; 19-year-old Christopher Bell in DeKalb County; Demarion Jamal Raiford, 18, of Jackson County; and Zorion Tymal Sims, 19, of Oglethorpe County. Charges range from murder to aggravated assault, aggravated battery, being a party to a crime, and violations of Georgia’s anti-gang law.

Jordan was remembered by his community as a gentle giant whose smile could light up a room; his sister ShaBrian Jordan said the family wants to know why this happened.