Antonio Jenkins, a 23-year-old African American man, was killed on February 5, 2017, in Brunswick, Georgia, in what investigators described as a home-invasion shooting at the Southern Pines Mobile Home Park off Highway 99. According to contemporaneous reporting, Glynn County police were called to Southern Pines Way at about 10 p.m. and found Jenkins dead in the yard of a home. The scene was chaotic and violent: another victim, 24-year-old Shtera Collins, had been shot in the face but survived long enough to be taken to Southeast Georgia Health System for treatment. Early accounts said witnesses told police that two men had come to the residence asking for Jenkins, a detail that gave the case the feel of a targeted attack rather than a random act of violence.
By the next day, investigators announced arrests. Police said Nicholaus Cooke-Dew, 30, and Brandon McBride, 31, both of Brunswick, had been taken into custody in connection with Jenkins’s killing and Collins’s shooting. The charges reported at the time were murder, aggravated assault, and home invasion. News coverage from that period consistently identified the two men as the suspects and said the arrests came after officers pursued leads through the night and into the following day. The reporting that survives online does not appear to provide a clear public motive, and police in those early updates said they were not releasing additional details about why Jenkins was targeted.
What remains online paints the outline of a grim, concentrated burst of violence: men arriving with a purpose, demanding to see Jenkins, gunfire erupting at a mobile home, Jenkins collapsing outside, and a second victim left gravely wounded. The most consistently documented developments are the homicide itself and the swift arrests of Cooke-Dew and McBride. In the online sources I was able to locate, those two men are the only suspects publicly identified in connection with the case. I did not find clear, readily accessible online reporting that established later trial results or convictions tied specifically to Jenkins’s death, so the strongest supported public record available online centers on the February 2017 killing and the immediate charges that followed.
