In the early hours of January 17, 2016, 49-year-old Herbert Buster Perkinson of Emerson was found with a gunshot wound in the emergency lane on the southbound side of Interstate 75 in Cherokee County, Georgia. He was taken to a nearby hospital where he died. Investigators later concluded his death followed a violent home invasion and kidnapping earlier that morning; two men reportedly abducted him from his home on 11th Street in Emerson and he was believed to have been targeted during an apparent robbery attempt.

The Georgia Bureau of Investigation led the homicide probe alongside the Emerson Police Department and the Cherokee County Sheriff’s Office and released composite sketches of two men sought in connection with the abduction and killing. Authorities have said they believe Perkinson knew his assailants and that the attack was not random. Perkinson was a father of two and one of eight siblings.

Anyone with information about the abduction or the two men in the sketches is asked to come forward.