On October 12, 2024, 17-year-old Beatriz Vega was found with critical gunshot wounds in a car in an overflow parking lot near a Chick-fil-A in Douglasville, Georgia. An iPhone automated crash alert led deputies to the 3200 block of West Stewart Mill Road, but deputies reported no evidence of a collision at the scene. Beatriz and 19-year-old Roberto Deleon were taken to a local hospital and both later died; the incident is being treated as a double homicide.

Beatriz was a senior at Pebblebrook High School and a member of the soccer team. The Douglas County Sheriff’s Office has been investigating and asking the public for information; investigators say they have pursued leads but, as of early 2026, no suspects have been publicly identified and no arrests announced. Few details have been released about motive or a possible perpetrator.

If anyone was in that area the early morning of October 12, 2024, or has information about who might have been involved, please share what is known with the Douglas County Sheriff’s Office.