On the evening of Sunday, March 31, 2024, 33-year-old Jamal Phillips was fatally shot in the parking lot of the Buy Low Super Market on James Jackson Parkway in northwest Atlanta. Police found Phillips with a gunshot wound and he was taken to a nearby hospital, where he later died; the Fulton County Medical Examiner’s Office confirmed his identity. A 16-year-old girl was also shot that night and went to a fire station on Hollywood Road before being transported to a hospital; she was reported to be alert.

Family and friends described Phillips as an innocent bystander who had been at a peaceful gathering with friends about half an hour earlier. Investigators say a suspect was in a dark-colored car at the time, and as of early April 2024 no arrests had been made and no suspects publicly identified. Anyone with information about the shooting or the dark-colored car is asked to come forward.