Jarrett Jefferies was 27 when he moved to Atlanta in spring 2023 to be more involved in the lives of his five sons. On the evening of Monday, April 24, officers responded to a business at the intersection of Memorial Drive and Wyman Street in the Kirkwood neighborhood after reports of a shooting. Police found Jefferies with a critical gunshot wound about 9:20 p.m.; he was taken to a nearby hospital but died of his injuries, and the DeKalb County Medical Examiner’s Office later confirmed his identity.

In the days after the shooting investigators had not publicly identified any suspects and no motive or full sequence of events had been released. The Atlanta Police Department described the investigation as ongoing, and Jefferies’s family sought to return his body to his home state of New Jersey. If anyone was in Kirkwood that night or has information about Jarrett Jefferies’s movements or contacts on April 24, please share what is known.