On June 11, 2024, a passenger dispute on a Gwinnett County transit bus in the Atlanta area ended with the death of 58-year-old Earnest Byrd Jr.

A multi-county police pursuit followed before officers stopped the vehicle. Byrd was found inside the bus, taken to a hospital, and later died; the Fulton County Medical Examiner ruled the manner of death a homicide, listing a gunshot wound to the left leg as the cause. Byrd’s family remembers him as a devoted father and grandfather who had moved to Atlanta from New York about eight years earlier and who tried to keep the peace.

If anyone was a passenger on that bus or has information about the confrontation, please share what is known.