On the night of May 12, 2024, at about 11:55 p.m., gunfire rang out in the 300 block of East Hill Avenue in Valdosta, Georgia. Officers found 32-year-old Jonathan Antonio Vicks, an African American man from Quitman, lying unresponsive in the roadway with a gunshot wound. He was taken to South Georgia Medical Center but died on the afternoon of May 13, 2024.

Two other men also suffered gunshot wounds that night; one left the hospital before police could interview him and the other refused to cooperate. Investigators recovered surveillance footage showing a large number of people in a nearby parking lot and surrounding area at the time of the shooting. The Valdosta Police Department has said the death is being investigated as a homicide and has clarified that no arrests have been made despite earlier erroneous reports.

Anyone who was in that area or who has information about who fired the shots or the events leading up to them is asked to contact investigators to help bring answers to the family.