A shooting in a Duluth shopping center parking lot left 17-year-old Elbert Josh Brown fatally wounded on January 27, 2024. The incident occurred in the early morning at the lot for 4500 Satellite Boulevard. Friends drove Brown to Northside Hospital Duluth, but he died later that day and Gwinnett County police opened a homicide investigation.

Investigators initially asked the public for help as they worked to reconstruct what happened in the parking lot. By early February investigators said the shooting had been deemed accidental and a 16-year-old had been arrested on charges including involuntary manslaughter, possession of a handgun by a person under 18, and possession of a firearm during the commission of a felony. The teen was being held at a juvenile detention facility.

Does anyone who was in the area that morning or who knew Elbert have information that could help clarify how the shooting unfolded?