Muhammad Jenkins, a 28-year-old Black man from Decatur, was killed on February 15, 2020, in the home where he lived on Derrill Drive off Glenwood Road. Before dawn that Saturday, DeKalb County police were called to the house at about 5 a.m. and found him suffering from gunshot wounds. He died there at the scene, turning what should have been an ordinary home into the center of a homicide investigation. Early reports captured the shock of it: investigators moving through the property, neighbors talking about hearing gunfire in the dark, and the sense that the violence had come crashing into a private space where a family had been living its life.
In the days that followed, the case moved quickly from mystery to accusation. DeKalb County deputies arrested Lebre Denise Harris, 21, of Ellenwood, on February 18, 2020, on Peachtree Street in Atlanta. According to the sheriff’s office, authorities said Harris shot Jenkins multiple times that Saturday morning at the Derrill Drive home. The accusation gave the killing a sharper outline than the first bare reports had offered, transforming it from a scene of unanswered questions into a case prosecutors could begin to shape around a named suspect.
Authorities said the shooting happened during a robbery, and Harris was charged with felony murder and armed robbery. Reporting at the time said she was being held without bond in the DeKalb Jail. In the public reporting that is readily available online, those are the clearest documented charges tied to Jenkins’s death. I did not find reliable open-source reporting that clearly traces the case beyond that point to a trial, conviction, or final court resolution, so the publicly visible record remains centered on the killing itself, the arrest days later, and the family left behind in its wake.
Outside the criminal case, the loss was described in more intimate terms by those trying to bury him and steady the people closest to him. A family fundraiser said Jenkins left behind a wife and two very young sons, and his obituary fixed the date of his death and the funeral that followed a week later in Decatur. Those details make the story feel heavier than the charge sheet alone ever could: a young man killed inside his own home, a woman accused of pulling the trigger, and a family forced almost overnight to move from ordinary life into grief, funeral plans, and the long uncertainty that follows a violent death.
