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Lithonia, GA Shooting: Ricardo Fallen, 20, Killed at the Stonecrest Mill Apartment Homes on Evans Mill Road

DeKalb County officers were sent to an apartment complex on Evans Mill Road on a Sunday afternoon and found a man who had been shot. He died of his wounds. No one has been arrested. Two versions of his name are in the public record, and this page prints both.

What happened on Evans Mill Road in Lithonia

On the afternoon of Sunday, Aug. 9, 2026, DeKalb County police officers were sent to an apartment complex on Evans Mill Road for a report of a shooting. They found a man who had been shot. He died of his wounds. He was 20 years old. No one has been arrested.

Atlanta News First opened its report with the whole of it in one line: “A man was killed in a shooting at an apartment complex in Lithonia Sunday, according to DeKalb County police.” The same station gave the address and the clock: “Police said officers responded to 2795 Evans Mill Road, the address for Stonecrest Mill Apartment Homes, around 1:45 p.m. Sunday.”

FOX 5 Atlanta described the response and what officers walked into: “DeKalb County police officers rushed to the 2700 block of Evans Mill Road around 1:40 p.m. Sunday after receiving a report of a shooting.” Then: “When officers arrived, they found a man who had been shot multiple times.”

WSB-TV Channel 2 Action News carried the outcome: a man “who was shot several times earlier in the day has died of his wounds.”

That is the spine of it, and it is short. Three newsrooms establish a place, a time, a man shot more than once, and a death. Who fired, from where, why and after what are not in the reporting we were given, and this page does not supply any of the four.

How thin this record is, and why we say so

Some stories on this site are assembled from six newsrooms filing across a month, and the work is comparing them. This one rests on the three newsrooms cited here, across four reports. Saying so is not a hedge. It changes what a reader should take from the page:

• The name arrives twice, differently spelled, from two different kinds of source. Atlanta News First and WSB-TV Channel 2 Action News both attribute an identification to DeKalb County police. FOX 5 Atlanta attributes a slightly longer name to family members. Neither version is discarded here.
• No suspect exists in this record. Not a name, not an age, not a description, not a vehicle. Nothing.
• There is no charging document, no court date and no autopsy finding anywhere in what we hold.
• The circumstances are blank. Atlanta News First reported that “police have not said what led up to the shooting and said the investigation is ongoing.”

Attention: a thin record is not a suspicious one. A fatal shooting on a Sunday afternoon routinely produces exactly this shape of coverage — an address, a response time, a condition, a death, an appeal for tips — because that is what a police department releases in the first hours, before detectives have anything they are willing to say out loud. The honest response is to publish that much, mark the edges of it, and refuse to round anything up.

What we will not do is dress the gaps in confident language. Every sentence below that carries a fact carries the outlet that published it, in the same sentence, so nothing on this page borrows authority it did not earn.

Exactly where: Evans Mill Road, and two ways of writing it

The place is an apartment complex on Evans Mill Road: the Stonecrest Mill Apartment Homes. Two of our reports write the location two different ways, and both ways are correct at different levels of precision.

Atlanta News First is the most specific. It reported that “officers responded to 2795 Evans Mill Road, the address for Stonecrest Mill Apartment Homes, around 1:45 p.m. Sunday,” and its lead placed the shooting “at an apartment complex in Lithonia.” That is a street number, a complex name and a community name in a single report.

FOX 5 Atlanta wrote a block reference instead: officers “rushed to the 2700 block of Evans Mill Road.” The same station's lead placed the death “at the Stonecrest Mill Apartment Homes in DeKalb County on Sunday, according to the victim’s family.” A 2795 address sits inside a 2700 block, so those two are the same stretch of road described at two zoom levels, not a disagreement to referee.

A distinction worth keeping straight: the address in this record is the address of a complex, not of a unit. An apartment community can cover many buildings, several hundred doors, parking, breezeways and lawns. No building number, unit number or specific spot inside the property appears in the reporting we were given, so none appears here. Whether this happened indoors or outdoors is not stated either.

There is no map on this page, and that is deliberate. The Local Alert does not publish coordinates it has not verified, and dropping a pin here would manufacture a precision the record does not contain. A pin looks authoritative. In a case like this it would be a guess wearing a uniform.

On the place name: Lithonia is in the eastern part of DeKalb County, in metro Atlanta. Addresses across a wide area east of Decatur carry a Lithonia mailing address without sitting inside the small incorporated city, which is why a story can be reported as Lithonia, as DeKalb County, and as metro Atlanta all at once without any of the three being wrong. Atlanta News First is the report in our record that carries the Lithonia placement.

The time: two newsrooms, five minutes apart

The two published times differ by five minutes, and we print both rather than splitting the difference.

Atlanta News First: officers responded “around 1:45 p.m. Sunday.” FOX 5 Atlanta: officers “rushed to the 2700 block of Evans Mill Road around 1:40 p.m. Sunday after receiving a report of a shooting.”

Both sentences carry the word around, which is how newsrooms signal that a dispatch log has been rounded for a reader. A five-minute gap between two accounts of the same afternoon is ordinary and usually reflects two different moments being timed: the call coming in, the unit being dispatched, the unit arriving. We do not average them, and we do not pick the more precise-sounding one. One outlet says 1:45. One says 1:40. That is the record.

Here is the distinction that gets lost constantly: neither number is the moment the shots were fired. Both are police response times. The shooting happened before either of them, by an interval nobody has published, and this page does not convert a dispatch time into the time of a killing.

The date itself is not in dispute. Atlanta News First and FOX 5 Atlanta both write Sunday, and Atlanta News First's report is dated Aug. 9, 2026, which was a Sunday.

Who was killed: Ricardo Fallen, 20

Atlanta News First reported: “The victim was identified by DeKalb County police as 20-year-old Ricardo Fallen.” WSB-TV Channel 2 Action News reported the same identification and the same attribution: “The DeKalb County Police Department has confirmed his identity as Ricardo Fallen, 20.”

Two named newsrooms, both crediting the same agency, both giving the same name and the same age. We publish it, and we attach the attribution every time it appears. Withholding a name that two newsrooms have already carried protects nobody. It only makes a page useless to the people it is actually for — the neighbors, cousins and classmates searching to find out whether the name they are dreading is the name on the screen.

What this page will not do is let the identification drift loose from the office that made it. The identification is credited to DeKalb County police in both reports that carry it. That matters in the section below, where a third report describes a different source for the name.

Almost nothing about who he was is in the reporting we were given. One line survives, and it comes from the people who knew him rather than from any agency. FOX 5 Atlanta reported that “loved ones said Graves came from a large, close-knit family and was only at the complex visiting someone when the gunfire erupted.” That sentence is attributed by that station to loved ones, not to police and not to any official finding, and this page keeps that attribution attached to it. A 20-year-old man was killed on a Sunday afternoon in August, and one sentence from the people who loved him is the whole of what the public record holds about his life.

Two versions of one name, and why we print both

This is the one place on this page where reports can look like they are fighting. They are not fighting. They are describing two different acts by two different parties.

The police version. Atlanta News First: “The victim was identified by DeKalb County police as 20-year-old Ricardo Fallen.” WSB-TV Channel 2 Action News: “The DeKalb County Police Department has confirmed his identity as Ricardo Fallen, 20.”

The family version. FOX 5 Atlanta: “Family members identified the victim to FOX 5 Atlanta as Ricardo Graves Fallen.” That same station's report also contains this sentence: “Authorities have not released the victim's name or identified any potential suspects.” Read those two together and the shape is clear enough — that report describes a state of the story in which a family had spoken and an agency had not.

So there is no contradiction to resolve. A family telling a television station a name and a police department releasing an identification are separate acts, by separate parties, on separate schedules. A report saying authorities had not released a name is not a claim that they never would, and it is not evidence against the identification two other newsrooms later carried. It is a description of one moment.

On the spelling itself, the difference is one word: Ricardo Fallen in the police version, Ricardo Graves Fallen in the family version. Both contain the same first name and the same last name. Families routinely give a full name including a middle name or a second surname that an agency's release omits, and news writing then follows whichever it received. This page uses Ricardo Fallen in its headline and its summary, because that is the version two outlets attribute to police, and it prints the family version in full every time the subject comes up. We are not going to declare one of them the real one. That is not our call to make, and it is not a call the record supports.

One further note on the FOX 5 Atlanta report: in the sentence about his family, that station refers to him by “Graves.” We have quoted that sentence exactly as written rather than silently rewriting the name inside a quotation, which is a thing this site does not do.

What “shot multiple times” establishes, and what it does not

Two newsrooms describe more than one gunshot wound, in two different words, and neither gives a number.

FOX 5 Atlanta: “When officers arrived, they found a man who had been shot multiple times.” WSB-TV Channel 2 Action News: a man “who was shot several times earlier in the day has died of his wounds.”

Multiple and several are not a conflict. They are two writers reaching for the same idea — more than one — without a count in hand. No count appears in the reporting we were given, so no count appears on this page. Not a range, not an estimate, not a figure a reader could quote back at us.

It is also worth being precise about what those sentences do and do not establish. They establish that a man had more than one gunshot wound and that he died of his wounds. They do not establish how many weapons were involved, how many people fired, from what distance, or in what order anything happened. Those findings belong to a scene investigation and, later, to an examination of the body. Neither has produced a public result in our record.

There is a reason to be strict here rather than dramatic. A shot count is one of the most repeated numbers in coverage of a killing, and it is one of the most frequently wrong, because it travels from a bystander to a relative to a broadcast before anyone has counted anything. When a number does not exist in a source, inventing one is not color. It is a fabrication with a family attached to it.

No arrests, and what that means on day one

No one has been arrested. That is reported by WSB-TV Channel 2 Action News and by FOX 5 Atlanta.

WSB-TV Channel 2 Action News, across its two reports on this shooting, wrote that “no arrests have been made in connection with the case and it remains an active investigation,” and that “no arrests have been made in this active investigation.” FOX 5 Atlanta wrote that “no arrests have been made in connection with the fatal shooting.”

Notice what that sentence is and is not. “No arrests” is a statement about a moment, not a verdict about a case. It does not mean nobody is being looked at. It does not mean detectives have nothing. It does not mean the case is going nowhere. It means that as of the reporting in front of us, no person had been taken into custody in connection with this shooting.

The companion phrase is doing just as much work: “active investigation.” That is an agency's way of saying the file is open and being worked, and it is also the phrase that will be cited if you request records and get told no. Both meanings are live at once.

Nothing in the reporting we were given names, describes or hints at a suspect. No age, no gender, no vehicle, no direction of travel, no relationship to the man who died. We are not going to construct one out of the shape of the story, and neither should anyone reading it.

Who is investigating: the DeKalb County Police Department

The DeKalb County Police Department is the agency named in all three newsrooms' reporting, and it is the only law enforcement agency named in any of it.

Atlanta News First attributed the whole of its account to that department: “A man was killed in a shooting at an apartment complex in Lithonia Sunday, according to DeKalb County police.” FOX 5 Atlanta reported that “DeKalb County police officers rushed to the 2700 block of Evans Mill Road,” and WSB-TV Channel 2 Action News routed tips to the same department by name.

That is a single-agency case as the public record has it. No sheriff's office, no federal agency, no state agency and no district attorney's office appears anywhere in the reporting we were given, and this page does not put one there.

Absence here is information rather than an accusation. Georgia cases do frequently pick up additional agencies later — a sheriff's fugitive unit for an arrest, the Georgia Bureau of Investigation on request, a prosecutor once charges are contemplated. None of that has happened in our record. It has simply not been reported, which is a different thing from being ruled out, and this page says only the first.

Four DeKalb County bodies people mix up

Readers, and sometimes writers, treat these as one organization. They are four, with separate leadership and separate duties, and this site keeps them apart on purpose.

The distinction that matters most for a reader trying to get something done: a county police department and a county sheriff's office are not two names for the same building. They answer to different bosses, keep different files, and sit behind different records counters. A story that swaps one for the other sends a family to the wrong window on the worst week of its life.

The fourth row is the one that surprises people. In a great many Georgia fatal-shooting stories, the victim's name reaches the public through a coroner or a medical examiner rather than through police. In this case, the two reports that carry the name both credit the DeKalb County Police Department. That is a meaningful difference, and it is why this page does not describe the identification as a medical examiner's finding.

Why this is not the Rockcliff Road case

DeKalb County is large, and this site is covering more than one fatal shooting inside it. Two stories a few weeks apart in the same county get merged in readers' heads constantly, so we will separate them plainly.

This page is about a shooting on Aug. 9, 2026, at an apartment complex on Evans Mill Road, in which a 20-year-old man was killed and no arrests have been made.

It is not the Rockcliff Road sleepover shooting, a separate DeKalb County case from July 2026 with different victims, a different location, a different set of facts and arrests already made. Different date, different street, different people. Nothing established in one belongs to the other, and nothing on this page should be read across.

We are stating that here rather than assuming it, because the single fastest way for a false detail to enter a story is for a reader — or a writer — to import a fact from an adjacent case in the same county and forget where it came from.

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What a medical examiner's office actually does

No medical examiner is named in this record, which is exactly why this section exists: a family reading a day-one story usually does not know which office holds which answer, and half the calls they make go to the wrong one.

A medical examiner's office is a death investigation office. Its subject is the body and the death, not the criminal case. In general terms it takes custody of a person who died in circumstances the law requires be examined, works to establish who that person is, notifies next of kin, conducts an examination that may include an autopsy, sends specimens for laboratory testing, and eventually certifies two findings that readers routinely conflate:

• Cause of death is the medical event that ended the life — for example, a gunshot wound of a specific part of the body.
• Manner of death is the classification: homicide, suicide, accident, natural, or undetermined.

Neither finding appears anywhere in the reporting we were given. No autopsy result, no cause of death, no manner of death, no toxicology. This page does not assume the outcome of any of them, and the word homicide is not applied here as a finding, because no office quoted in our record has applied it.

One thing a manner classification is not: a legal verdict. A ruling of homicide means one person's actions caused another person's death. It is not a determination that a crime was committed, and it names nobody.

Georgia's death investigation framework sits at O.C.G.A. § 45-16-20 and following, which requires that certain deaths — including deaths by apparent violence — be reported to the county coroner or medical examiner rather than simply signed off by a treating physician. From there the sequence generally runs: information gathered from the scene and any hospital, identification established, next of kin notified, examination performed, laboratory work returned, and only then a cause and manner certified.

The laboratory step is what stretches the calendar. Toxicology sits in a queue behind every other case in the state. It is entirely normal for a preliminary understanding to exist within days while the final, certified cause of death takes weeks or months, and that delay is not evasion.

One consequence catches families completely off guard: a pending cause of death can hold up paperwork that has nothing to do with the criminal case. Insurance filings, benefit claims and estate matters often wait on a certified death certificate. That is a question for the death investigation office, not the police department — separate offices, separate files, separate clocks.

How a Georgia homicide investigation moves from here

Nothing in this section is reported about this shooting. It is the general path such a case follows in Georgia, offered because the most common question after a day-one story is: what happens next, and who does it?

Step one is the scene. Detectives document the location, collect physical evidence, canvass for witnesses, look for cameras, and take statements. At an apartment complex that canvass is wide by nature: many doors, shared outdoor space, parking, and often private video that has to be asked for building by building before it overwrites itself. This stage can take days and produce nothing the public ever hears about.

Step two is the decision to arrest. An arrest requires probable cause: specific facts that would lead a reasonable officer to believe a particular person committed a particular offense. That is a far lower bar than what a trial demands, and it is still a bar that a case can sit below for a long time.

Step three is the charging decision, and it does not belong to the police. In Georgia a district attorney's office decides what charges are pursued, and a felony case generally proceeds to a grand jury, which indicts or declines. Police recommend. Prosecutors charge. Grand juries indict. Trial juries convict. Collapsing those four is how a news story turns an accusation into a verdict by accident.

Step four is time. Georgia has no statute of limitations for murder, so a case that produces no charge this month is not thereby closed. A family can wait a very long time without that silence signaling anything about the strength of the file.

Where does this case sit on that path? The reporting we were given establishes step one and stops. Atlanta News First reported that “police have not said what led up to the shooting and said the investigation is ongoing,” and WSB-TV Channel 2 Action News reported that no arrests have been made and that it remains an active investigation. That is where the public record ends.

How to give investigators information

If you were at that complex on Evans Mill Road on Sunday afternoon, or you have video from a doorbell, a dash camera or a phone, the routing instruction in our record is specific.

WSB-TV Channel 2 Action News reported: “Anyone with information can send an anonymous tip through the free DeKalb County PD app or by texting ‘847411’ followed by the tip.”

That is the only tip channel that appears in the reporting we were given, and we print it exactly as that station wrote it. The Local Alert does not publish a tip line phone number, email address or web form that we have not verified ourselves. A number we half-remember is worse than no number at all: someone with something real to say calls it, reaches a dead line, and never calls back. For anything beyond the channel quoted above, the department's own official website carries its current contact routes.

Two practical notes for anyone weighing whether what they have is worth reporting. Video overwrites itself. Most consumer camera systems keep a rolling window measured in days, not months, so footage from that Sunday afternoon may already be at risk. And a detail that feels too small to matter — a time, a direction, a sound, a car that did not belong — is frequently the piece a detective is missing. Deciding in advance that your information is not useful is not a judgment you have the file to make.

How to get the incident report, and what an open case does to it

After a killing, the most common practical question is not about a suspect. It is: how do I get the report?

The document you want is the police incident report, held by the agency that took the call — here, the DeKalb County Police Department. The law governing your request is Georgia's Open Records Act, O.C.G.A. § 50-18-70 and following. In general terms, as the statute is written:

• Anyone can ask. You need not be a relative, and you need not say why you want it.
• The agency generally has three business days to produce the records or to respond in writing describing what exists and when it will be available.
• Fees are allowed for copies and for search and retrieval time beyond a short free increment.
• Records tied to a pending investigation are broadly exempt under O.C.G.A. § 50-18-72, with a carve-out that generally keeps the initial incident report and the initial arrest report available even while a case is open.

That last bullet is the whole ballgame on a fresh homicide. The initial incident report is usually obtainable. The investigative file behind it usually is not, until the case closes. Expect a short, limited narrative — a date, a location, an offense code, a few lines — and expect a denial citing the pending investigation on anything richer. That posture is standard, and it is not a judgment about the person asking.

Practical points that save weeks: put the request in writing even where a counter will take it verbally, ask for the case number and use it on everything afterward, and ask specifically for the initial incident report rather than for the file, because a request for the file invites a blanket denial. If a record is withheld, an agency is generally expected to cite the specific exemption it is relying on, and that citation tells you whether to wait or to narrow the request.

The Local Alert does not publish a records phone number, email address, office address or fee schedule that we have not verified ourselves. The agency's own official website carries the current process. And if what you actually need is a death certificate, that is not a police record at all — it comes through the death investigation track described above.

Where our sources differ

Three newsrooms built this record. They agree on the spine of it, and the value in comparing them is not catching a fight — it is showing exactly which outlet established which fact, so no line on this page inherits certainty from a report that never carried it.

Read down the right-hand column and the shape of this record is exact: an address, two response times five minutes apart, a man shot more than once, a death, a name in two versions, one agency, and no arrest.

Schematic sequence, not to scale. Steps are ordered by the sequence the reporting describes, not by published timestamps. The only clock times in the record are police response times, and steps four and five carry no time at all.

What we don't know yet

None of the above is filled in by inference. This page does not update itself and there is no second version coming. It is a record of what the three named newsrooms cited here had established as of the timestamp at the foot of this page.

If this is your family

A 20-year-old man was shot on a Sunday afternoon in August and died of his wounds. If you are reading this because you already knew his name, the rest of this page is not written for you. This section is.

The most useful thing to understand early is that the answers you want sit in separate offices on separate clocks. The police file, the death investigation paperwork and any eventual prosecution are three tracks. None of them moves on a family's schedule, and progress on one says nothing about progress on the others. Calling a police department about a death certificate, or a death investigation office about a suspect, mostly buys a transfer and a lost afternoon.

A few things worth writing down while the days blur together:

• Ask for the case number early. Nearly every later request runs through that number, and getting it now saves an argument later.
• Ask who the assigned detective is, and go back to the same office each time rather than to whoever answers the main line.
• Keep a dated log of who you spoke to, when, and what they told you. Memory does not survive a month like this one.
• Expect the incident report to be short and the investigative file to be withheld while the case is open. That is standard, not a brush-off.
• Ask about a victim advocate before you try to navigate compensation paperwork alone.

Attention: the phone starts ringing after a homicide, and not everyone calling is calling for you. The Local Alert is not a law enforcement agency and is not a law firm. We cannot tell you what to sign. What we will say is that nothing has to be signed today, and any offer that cannot survive a night's sleep was never much of an offer.

Help for Georgia victims and their families

These are the general channels in Georgia for families after a violent death. None of it is reported about this case, and none of it is legal advice.

Crime victims compensation. Georgia runs a crime victims compensation program administered by the state Criminal Justice Coordinating Council. For a homicide it can help surviving family members with costs such as funeral and burial expenses, counseling and certain economic losses. Eligibility rules, filing deadlines and award caps apply, and they matter enormously. We do not print a dollar figure or a deadline we have not verified, so confirm both with the program itself. Applications are commonly filed with the help of a victim advocate rather than alone.

Victim advocates. Georgia district attorney offices and many police agencies employ victim-witness advocates whose job is exactly this: explaining where a case stands, helping with compensation paperwork, and giving notice of court dates. Their help does not depend on anyone being charged, which is worth knowing in a case where no one has been.

Your rights in a criminal case. Georgia's Crime Victims Bill of Rights, at O.C.G.A. § 17-17-1 and following, gives victims and certain family members rights including notice of proceedings and the ability to be heard at specified stages. Those rights generally have to be requested and registered rather than arriving automatically, which is a detail families learn far too late.

Counseling. Compensation programs frequently cover counseling for surviving family members, including children in the household, and that coverage is routinely left unused because nobody knew to ask for it. We are not printing a phone number or a web form we have not verified ourselves.

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Frequently asked questions

What happened on Evans Mill Road in Lithonia, Georgia?
A man was shot and died. Atlanta News First reported that a man was killed in a shooting at an apartment complex in Lithonia on Sunday, according to DeKalb County police, and that officers responded to 2795 Evans Mill Road, the address for Stonecrest Mill Apartment Homes, around 1:45 p.m. Sunday. FOX 5 Atlanta reported that DeKalb County police officers rushed to the 2700 block of Evans Mill Road around 1:40 p.m. Sunday after receiving a report of a shooting, and that when officers arrived they found a man who had been shot multiple times. WSB-TV Channel 2 Action News reported that a man who was shot several times earlier in the day had died of his wounds.

Who was killed in the Lithonia apartment shooting?
Atlanta News First reported that the victim was identified by DeKalb County police as 20-year-old Ricardo Fallen. WSB-TV Channel 2 Action News reported that the DeKalb County Police Department confirmed his identity as Ricardo Fallen, 20. FOX 5 Atlanta reported that family members identified the victim to that station as Ricardo Graves Fallen. This page prints both versions of the name and attaches the source to each.

Why do reports give two different versions of his name?
Because two different parties supplied them. The name Ricardo Fallen is attributed to DeKalb County police in the reports by Atlanta News First and WSB-TV Channel 2 Action News. The name Ricardo Graves Fallen is attributed by FOX 5 Atlanta to family members who spoke to that station. Families routinely give a full name including a middle name that an agency release omits. The Local Alert does not declare one version the correct one, because that is not a call this record supports.

Where exactly did the shooting happen?
At the Stonecrest Mill Apartment Homes on Evans Mill Road. Atlanta News First gave the address as 2795 Evans Mill Road and placed the shooting at an apartment complex in Lithonia. FOX 5 Atlanta placed the police response in the 2700 block of Evans Mill Road and named the Stonecrest Mill Apartment Homes in DeKalb County. A 2795 address sits inside a 2700 block, so these describe the same stretch of road at two levels of precision. No building number or unit number appears in the reporting we were given, and The Local Alert does not publish map coordinates it has not verified.

When did the Lithonia shooting happen?
On Sunday, Aug. 9, 2026, in the early afternoon. Atlanta News First reported that officers responded around 1:45 p.m. Sunday. FOX 5 Atlanta reported that officers rushed to the 2700 block of Evans Mill Road around 1:40 p.m. Sunday. Those two times differ by five minutes and this page prints both rather than averaging them. Both are police response times, not the moment the shots were fired, which is not stated in the reporting we were given.

How many times was he shot?
No count has been published. FOX 5 Atlanta reported that officers found a man who had been shot multiple times. WSB-TV Channel 2 Action News reported that a man who was shot several times had died of his wounds. Multiple and several both mean more than one, and neither outlet gives a number, so this page does not give one either.

Has anyone been arrested in the Evans Mill Road shooting?
No. WSB-TV Channel 2 Action News reported that no arrests have been made in connection with the case and that it remains an active investigation. FOX 5 Atlanta reported that no arrests have been made in connection with the fatal shooting. No suspect is named, described or counted anywhere in the reporting we were given, and this page does not supply one.

Which agency is investigating the Lithonia shooting?
The DeKalb County Police Department. Atlanta News First attributed its account to DeKalb County police. FOX 5 Atlanta reported that DeKalb County police officers rushed to the 2700 block of Evans Mill Road. WSB-TV Channel 2 Action News routed tips to the free DeKalb County PD app. That department is the only law enforcement agency named in the reporting we were given.

Is the DeKalb County Sheriff's Office or the GBI involved?
Nothing in the reporting we were given places the DeKalb County Sheriff's Office or the Georgia Bureau of Investigation in this case. A county police department, a county sheriff's office and a state bureau are three separate agencies with separate leadership and separate duties, and this page does not blur them together. Not being named in this reporting is not the same as being ruled out.

Has a motive been released?
No. Atlanta News First reported that police have not said what led up to the shooting and said the investigation is ongoing. The Local Alert is not going to guess at a reason, and no relationship between the man who died and any other person is described anywhere in the reporting we were given.

Is this the same as the Rockcliff Road sleepover shooting in DeKalb County?
No. That is a separate DeKalb County case from July 2026, with different victims, a different location, a different set of facts and arrests already made. This page is about a shooting on Aug. 9, 2026, at an apartment complex on Evans Mill Road, in which a 20-year-old man was killed and no arrests have been made. Nothing established in one case belongs to the other.

How do I send police a tip about this shooting?
WSB-TV Channel 2 Action News reported that anyone with information can send an anonymous tip through the free DeKalb County PD app or by texting 847411 followed by the tip. That is the only tip channel that appears in the reporting we were given. The Local Alert does not publish a tip line number, email address or web form that we have not verified ourselves, so for anything beyond that channel use the department's own official website.

What does a medical examiner do in a case like this?
A medical examiner's office handles the death itself rather than the criminal case. It identifies the person who died, notifies next of kin, conducts an examination that may include an autopsy, and in time certifies a cause of death and a manner of death. Police investigate the shooting. In this case no medical examiner or coroner appears in the reporting we were given, and the identification of the victim is credited to DeKalb County police. No autopsy result, cause of death or manner of death appears anywhere in that reporting.

How do I get a copy of the police incident report?
Through an open records request to the agency that holds it, which here is the DeKalb County Police Department. Georgia's Open Records Act, O.C.G.A. § 50-18-70 and following, is the law that governs the request, and it generally requires an agency to respond within three business days. Records tied to a pending investigation are broadly exempt under O.C.G.A. § 50-18-72, with a carve-out that generally keeps the initial incident report available while a case is open. The Local Alert does not publish a records phone number, email address or fee schedule that we have not verified ourselves, because a family that calls a dead line loses a morning it cannot get back. Use the agency's own official website for the current process.

What help exists for the family of a Georgia homicide victim?
Georgia runs a crime victims compensation program administered by the state Criminal Justice Coordinating Council, which can help surviving family members with costs such as funeral and burial expenses and counseling. Deadlines, caps and eligibility rules apply, and this page does not print a dollar figure or a filing deadline we have not verified. Georgia's Crime Victims Bill of Rights, O.C.G.A. § 17-17-1 and following, also gives victims and certain family members the right to be notified about court proceedings, and those rights generally have to be requested and registered rather than arriving automatically.