Rasheen Jasper, a 29-year-old Black male from Savannah, was killed on August 18, 2017, after a shooting that unfolded at the Chatham City Apartments off Highway 21 in Garden City. According to local reports, he was sitting in a vehicle when two males opened fire, striking him in the chest. He was rushed away for emergency treatment but died from his injuries at the hospital, turning what had begun as a summer evening into a killing that investigators quickly described as deliberate rather than
random.
In the first days after the shooting, police said the gunmen were believed to have been in a dark-colored Chevrolet Malibu, described in reports as either a 2015 or 2017 model with chrome around the wheel wells. Investigators said the car used by the shooters may have had connections to vehicles from Savannah’s east or south side, a detail that suggested to them the violence may have reached beyond the immediate neighborhood. Officials also said the vehicle Jasper was in was stolen, but they did not believe that fact was what triggered the attack. At the time, Garden City’s police chief publicly characterized the slaying as a targeted assassination, reinforcing the sense that Jasper had been singled out.
As the investigation continued, police said the motive appeared personal, but they did not publicly identify the two men they said were responsible. No credible reporting located any arrest, indictment, or conviction tied specifically to Jasper’s killing. Two years later, in August 2019, Garden City police were still publicly asking for help and still describing the case as unsolved, with Jasper’s family pleading for answers and urging anyone with information to come forward. The public description of the suspects remained essentially the same: two males seen leaving the scene in the Malibu toward Highway 21.
What remains in the public record is a portrait of a case that never seemed to loosen its grip on those around him. Jasper’s death was followed by funeral services in Savannah later that month, while investigators kept returning to the same haunting outline of the crime: a parked car, a burst of gunfire, two men who vanished into the night, and a family left with grief but no courtroom resolution. Based on the online sources located, the homicide remained open at least through the 2019 anniversary coverage, and no named suspect or arrest was publicly confirmed in those reports.
