On the late afternoon of Sunday, August 21, 2022, gunfire was reported on Neese Street in Eastman, Georgia. Officers arrived at 6:36 p.m. and found a car crashed into a tree. Inside the wrecked vehicle was 21-year-old Za’Quon Brown of Oglethorpe, who was deceased from a gunshot wound. The Georgia Bureau of Investigation was called to lead the homicide probe.

Brown was remembered by friends and neighbors as respectful and good, employed at Walmart and a devoted father to an infant son. Three days after the shooting, on Wednesday, August 24, 2022, 16-year-old Andre Lynn Johnson of Rhine was arrested and charged with malice murder, felony murder, and aggravated assault in connection with the shooting. Johnson’s mother, 38-year-old Jemel Wilcox of Rhine, was also arrested and charged with making false statements and writings related to the investigation. Authorities said further charges and arrests were anticipated.

If anyone in Eastman or Oglethorpe has information about what happened that afternoon, can you share what you know?