On a Thursday afternoon in May 2022, gunshots shattered the everyday noise at a busy Valero gas station at the intersection of Redan and Panola Roads in Stone Mountain, Georgia. When the chaos subsided, 25-year-old Ahmir Rosairo, a male, had been critically wounded. He was rushed to a nearby hospital but ultimately succumbed to his injuries, his life ending on May 5, 2022. The incident also resulted in another man in his 20s being hospitalized with a gunshot wound.
The investigation into Rosairo's death quickly led DeKalb County police to a suspect. Rodney Bowers, 22, also from Stone Mountain, was arrested and charged with murder in connection with the fatal shooting. He was subsequently booked into the DeKalb County Jail. While the specific details of the dispute that led to the gunfire have not been fully disclosed by authorities, it was confirmed to be the result of a heated argument between two men.
In a complex turn of events, it was revealed that at the time of his death, Ahmir Rosairo was wanted by the police. He had outstanding warrants for his alleged involvement in an armed robbery and another shooting that had occurred at the very same Valero gas station just three months prior, on February 8. This earlier incident involved a man being shot and having his car potentially stolen. The man who police say shot Rosairo, Rodney Bowers, reportedly drove himself to a local Emory Clinic for treatment of a gunshot wound he sustained during the altercation before being identified as the alleged shooter and taken into custody.
