Curtis James Lee, a 57-year-old Black man, died on February 29, 2020, in what authorities described as a violent domestic-related shooting inside an apartment at the Arium Johns Creek complex near Suwanee. Police said the case unfolded late that Saturday afternoon, when a badly wounded woman, later identified by FOX 5 as 45-year-old Sadiqa Elamin-White, managed to call 911 from the apartment on Bristol Way. When officers arrived, they found Lee dead inside along with another man, 58-year-old Inman Ogletree Jr. Investigators said the three people knew one another and quickly framed the bloodshed as an isolated dispute, not a random attack that posed a wider threat to the public.
What emerges from the reporting is a scene that must have felt chaotic and intimate at the same time: a private conflict turning catastrophic behind apartment walls, then spilling into a 911 call made by the one surviving witness despite life-threatening gunshot wounds. Police said Elamin-White had been shot several times and was rushed to the hospital, while Lee and Ogletree were pronounced dead at the scene. Early reporting did not give a confirmed sequence of who fired first or exactly how the confrontation escalated, and investigators also said at the time that they were not prepared to say whether any of the gunshot wounds were self-inflicted.
As for suspects, arrests, and charges, the publicly available online reporting that surfaced in this search does not show any announced arrest tied to Lee’s death, nor does it show a later prosecution, trial, or conviction arising from the case. The strongest public indication from the initial police account was that there was no evidence anyone had fled before officers arrived, which narrowed the focus to the people already inside the apartment. Even so, police did not publicly name a shooter in the material available here, and the surviving witness was described as injured and hospitalized rather than arrested. Based on the accessible reports, the case appears to have remained publicly unresolved in terms of any formal arrest or charging announcement connected specifically to Curtis James Lee’s killing.
Lee’s death has also been reflected in memorial-style records that place him among those lost to gun violence in Suwanee on that date, alongside the contemporaneous reporting about the Johns Creek apartment shooting. Those records align on the date, place, and the fact that another man was killed in the same incident, but they do not add a public arrest history or a named defendant. In the end, the online record tells the story of a man whose life ended in a sudden burst of violence inside a home-like space, with the surviving witness left wounded, two families left grieving, and no clear public courtroom ending visible in the sources reviewed.
