Marcus Jameel Gilead, a 28-year-old Black man from Loganville, was killed on February 10, 2020, after what began as an ordinary evening at his home on Wrenwood Court and turned into a planned robbery. Police said he was sitting in an SUV in the driveway with another man, Ciavy Wiles, just after 8:00 p.m. Neighbors heard a burst of gunfire and called 911. When officers arrived, they found Gilead wounded in the vehicle area outside the home. He was taken to a hospital, but he did not survive.
In the first hours after the shooting, investigators described the case as robbery related. As the case developed, authorities said Gilead had been specifically targeted. Later court records and prosecution statements laid out a more complete picture: Miguel Angel Gonzalez had bought marijuana from Gilead earlier that day, and, according to prosecutors, Gonzalez then joined Abraham Quintanar and Sebastian Resendiz-Garcia in a plan to steal back about $600. The three allegedly drove to Gilead’s home, parked some distance away, armed themselves, and approached the driveway wearing masks.
According to the evidence later described in court, Gilead and Wiles were inside the SUV when the three men closed in from both sides of the vehicle, guns drawn, demanding to know where the bag was. The robbery quickly spiraled. Gilead was forced out of the vehicle, and a struggle broke out. Court accounts say Quintanar and Gilead fought over Quintanar’s gun. In the chaos, shots were fired. Wiles ran from the scene when the gunfire erupted. Prosecutors later said multiple members of the crew fired weapons as they fled, and one of the most damning details to emerge afterward was a text message attributed to Gonzalez telling Resendiz-Garcia, “I feel like I shot one of ’em, and for a fact AB did, too,” with AB referring to Abraham Quintanar.
The arrests came quickly. Investigators announced that Sebastian Resendiz-Garcia, 17, was arrested on February 12, 2020, and Miguel Gonzalez, 20, was arrested on February 13. Police said both were charged with felony murder, aggravated assault, criminal attempt to commit robbery, and possession of a firearm during the commission of a felony. Abraham Quintanar, who was 15 at the time, was then taken into custody on February 14 after police had continued searching for him. Authorities identified all three as Loganville residents and said the victim and defendants had a prior history.
The case then moved into the courts, where the story became even sharper and more tragic. A Gwinnett County grand jury later indicted Quintanar, Gonzalez, and Resendiz-Garcia on felony murder and other related charges. In later court rulings, Quintanar was described as the person who shot Gilead during the struggle. He was tried separately, convicted, and sentenced in March 2024 to life in prison with the possibility of parole, plus a consecutive five years for a firearm count. In June 2025, the Supreme Court of Georgia largely upheld his convictions, though it vacated one aggravated assault conviction on merger grounds rather than because of innocence.
Gonzalez was also convicted in the case. In June 2024, prosecutors announced that he had been found guilty of two counts each of felony murder, aggravated assault, and criminal attempt to commit a felony, along with possession of a firearm during the commission of a felony. He was sentenced to life in prison with the possibility of parole, plus five years. Prosecutors described him as the third member of the robbing crew to receive a life sentence, a phrase that signaled the full group had been brought down by the case. Publicly available reports and later appellate decisions continued to identify Resendiz-Garcia as a co-indictee and part of the robbery plan that ended in Gilead’s death.
What makes the case especially grim is how deliberate it appears to have been. This was not described as a random encounter or a sudden argument in the street. It was portrayed by police, prosecutors, and later courts as a targeted armed robbery at Gilead’s own home, carried out by people who believed he had drugs and cash on him. The scene in the driveway, the rush of masked gunmen, the struggle for the weapon, and the desperate moments afterward left behind a case that began with a neighborhood homicide call and ended with multiple murder convictions and life sentences.
