Jaquan “Crazy” Montgomery, a 21-year-old Black man from Atlanta, was killed on August 4, 2021, in a shooting at the Forest Cove apartments in southeast Atlanta. Late that Wednesday night, officers were called to the 300 block of Thomasville Boulevard at about 9:40 p.m. and found him with gunshot wounds. He was rushed to a hospital, but he did not survive.
The Fulton County Medical Examiner’s Office later identified him, turning what had begun as another nighttime emergency call into a death that would be folded into Atlanta’s grim surge in homicides that year.
The details released publicly were sparse, which in some ways makes the story feel even colder. Police said only that investigators were trying to determine what led to the shooting, and at the time they had no suspect information to share. Later reporting in the Atlanta homicide tracker continued to list the case without an arrest, suggesting that even after the first shock of that summer night had passed, the killing had not been publicly solved. In the records available online, there were no named suspects, no announced arrests, and no public charges tied to Montgomery’s death.
What does remain visible is the outline of the life that continued to matter after the gunfire stopped. His obituary identified him as Jaquan “Crazy” Montgomery of Atlanta and noted that funeral services were held on August 14, 2021, at Life Changing Walk of Faith in East Point, with viewing the day before through RW Andrews Mortuary. Those memorial details stand in stark contrast to the violence of his last hours: a young man found wounded at Forest Cove, a family left to gather a week later in church clothes instead of around him, and a case that, based on the public reporting available online, has not produced a publicly identified killer.
