On the evening of August 30, 2023, 6-month-old Charles Watson Jr. was fatally wounded when gunfire erupted around 8:15 p.m. while he, his 27-year-old mother, and his 23-year-old father were inside their vehicle at the Hills at Greenbriar apartment complex in Atlanta. All three family members were injured; the infant later died at a nearby hospital, the father was reported in critical condition, and the mother sustained non-life-threatening injuries and was released.

Police treated the shooting as a targeted attack and linked it possibly to a prior shooting at the same complex in May 2023. Investigators were looking for at least two shooters who fled in a light-colored four-door sedan. The family remembers Charles as a premature baby who was just learning to walk and talk and was always smiling and playing.

Did anyone in the Hills at Greenbriar area witness the shooting or see a light-colored four-door sedan leaving that night?