On the evening of April 26, 2023, 24-year-old Usaini Mohammed Yunusa Jr. was killed in Augusta, Georgia. He was a passenger in a vehicle outside The Estates at Perimeter on St. Andrews Drive when occupants of another car opened fire into his vehicle around 6 p.m. The driver of Yunusa’s car, 20-year-old Kobe Burns of Augusta, fled the scene while intoxicated and later crashed into trees at Perimeter Parkway and Interstate Parkway; Yunusa was pronounced dead at the crash scene and Burns was injured and taken to a hospital. Burns was later charged with DUI-drugs and failure to maintain lane.

Investigators identified two suspects in the shooting. Nineteen-year-old Kenneth Rot Ken Williams of Augusta was charged with murder and aggravated assault; he was already incarcerated on a probation violation when those charges were filed and had prior convictions including possession of a firearm during a felony, burglary, and theft by receiving stolen property. Eighteen-year-old Vinston Moultrie of Grovetown was arrested June 18, 2023, after a high-speed chase while driving a stolen Jaguar and faced charges including murder and aggravated assault.

Yunusa’s records show prior convictions for weapons, drug dealing, and gang-related activity in Cobb County, and a Richmond County arrest the summer before his death on drug-dealing charges after a DUI-related chase. If anyone knew Yunusa, the vehicle’s movements that evening, or saw activity near St. Andrews Drive around 6 p.m., please share what you know.