Anderson Adonay-Perdomo

On the afternoon of March 18, 2024, a brief encounter at a gas station in Chamblee, Georgia, turned fatal. Anderson Adonay-Perdomo, a 23-year-old Black man, was at the QuikTrip on Chamblee Tucker Road, approaching people at the pumps and asking for money. Witnesses told police that he was moving from person to person in the busy station.

Around 12:35 p.m., Adonay-Perdomo walked up to a vehicle at pump 6. The driver, later identified as 26-year-old Quinterius Sutton, shot Adonay-Perdomo once in the torso and then fled the scene. Emergency responders arrived to find Adonay-Perdomo critically injured. He was rushed to Grady Memorial Hospital, but he died from his wound less than three hours later.

Chamblee police immediately began searching for the shooter. Investigators were able to track Sutton’s vehicle to East Point, Georgia. Within two hours of the shooting, they had taken him into custody. Sutton was booked into the DeKalb County jail on charges of murder, possession of a firearm during the commission of a felony, and driving without a valid license.

In the summer of 2024, Quinterius Sutton pleaded guilty to the murder of Anderson Adonay-Perdomo. A judge sentenced him to life in prison for the killing. This was Sutton's second life sentence, as he was also convicted and sentenced for a separate fatal shooting that occurred in 2023. With the guilty plea and sentencing, the case in Adonay-Perdomo's death was officially closed.