A late summer argument over a basketball game bet in Toccoa, Georgia, ended in deadly gunfire on August 29, 2021. Thirty-year-old Christopher Deshun Tukes was shot twice in the back with an AR-15 as he tried to run away at Whitman Street Park and later died at Stephens County Hospital. A second man, 34-year-old Scottae Martin, was wounded and survived after treatment.

Authorities identified 32-year-old Brodrique Simone Dixon of Toccoa as the suspected shooter. A murder warrant was issued; Dixon turned himself in to the Toccoa Police Department the Tuesday after the shooting and was booked into the Stephens County jail. A grand jury later indicted him on malice murder, felony murder, two counts of aggravated assault and two counts of possession of a firearm during the commission of a felony, though the charges were amended to voluntary manslaughter for trial.

When the trial concluded in June 2023, a Stephens County jury found Dixon guilty of voluntary manslaughter. During sentencing the court heard victim and family impact statements and the judge imposed the maximum term of 20 years in prison, noting Dixon had shot an unarmed Tukes in the back as he fled. Does anyone have information about the events at Whitman Street Park that evening?