Brian Brown was a 17-year-old Black teenager from Powder Springs, Georgia, who was shot and killed on May 31, 2023. Deputies from the Douglas County Sheriff’s Office responded that evening at about 6 p.m. to a report of a person struck by gunfire in the Bill Arp community. Officers found Brian with a gunshot wound; he was taken to a hospital and died from his injuries.

Authorities launched a manhunt and, by the morning of June 1, announced they had located and arrested four people in connection with Brian’s death. The four arrested were identified as Zayden Cooper, 17, of Douglasville; Angel Menchaca Hernandez, 21, of Villa Rica; and Giovanni Omedeo and Douglas Omedeo, both 20 and from Villa Rica. All four were charged with felony murder and aggravated assault, and the case was moving through the court system as of June 2023.

Did anyone in the Bill Arp area that evening see or hear something that could help reconstruct what happened?