On the early morning of Labor Day, September 4, 2023, Richard Collins, 29, was shot and killed on East Jackson Street in Dublin, Georgia as he was leaving a party near the ACES Lounge. Collins, a father of nine described by his family as loving, hardworking and stylish, was struck by a bullet and died of his injuries; three other people were wounded in the same shooting. Collins’s mother said she believes he was an innocent bystander walking to his car.

The Dublin Police Department asked the Georgia Bureau of Investigation to assist. Within a week investigators identified three suspects and arrests followed on September 11 and 12, 2023: 32-year-old Roshoun Jenkins and 32-year-old Ira Dale Munn were arrested on September 11, and 30-year-old Dominique Tucker was taken into custody on September 12. Jenkins was charged with felony murder and four counts of aggravated assault; Munn and Tucker faced felony murder, armed robbery and multiple counts of aggravated assault.

Jenkins’s first two trials ended without a unanimous verdict. At the second trial he was acquitted of malice murder and four counts of aggravated assault, while jurors remained deadlocked on felony murder and two aggravated assault counts. His attorneys have raised a speedy-trial claim that reached the Georgia Supreme Court for consideration. Does anyone have information about Collins, the party that night, or the events on East Jackson Street?