Stephen Jerome Styles Jr., 40, was found unresponsive in the parking lot of the Blanton Commons apartment complex on Lankford Drive in Valdosta in the early morning hours of November 12, 2018. Emergency responders pronounced him dead at the scene; investigators later classified his death as a homicide. Family described Styles as charismatic, loving, and full of life, and his killing shocked the local community.

Valdosta Police Department detectives and crime-scene technicians from the Valdosta/Lowndes Regional Crime Laboratory investigated the shooting. In late November 2018 an arrest warrant was issued charging 23-year-old Ian Rashad Henry with felony murder in connection with Styles’ death. Henry was located and arrested in Melbourne, Florida, on December 1, 2018, and was being held there pending extradition to Lowndes County.

If anyone knew Stephen, saw activity around Blanton Commons on November 12, 2018, or has information about the events that led to his death, please come forward.