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Case Description

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Raphael Christian, a 16-year-old Black male from Marietta, Georgia, died on April 16, 2008, after what began as an ordinary evening at the Bentley Manor apartment complex on Bentley Road. According to reports from the time, he was outside with four friends around 6:30 p.m., showing them an air-powered pellet gun he had recently bought. At nearly the same moment, Marietta police were responding to a call about a suspicious person with a weapon. What happened next unfolded in seconds and left behi ...Read More

Victim Details

Raphael Christian

Male

Black / African American

Marietta

GA

2008-04-16

16

Raphael

Christian

05/06/2026