On a November afternoon in 2016, Quincy Yazie King, a 40-year-old Black man, was fatally shot in a home on Northside Circle in Atlanta, Georgia. The incident, which occurred around 4 p.m. on November 18th, was not a random act of violence; investigators quickly determined that King was the intended target. His death was also believed to be connected to a larger series of violent events in the area.
Friends who were with King at the time of the shooting told authorities that the man
responsible was 27-year-old Jermaine Roby. They recounted that Roby began acting erratically after consuming drugs and subsequently shot and killed King. Following the shooting, Atlanta police identified Roby as a person of interest in King's murder, initiating a search for him.
The investigation took a darker turn as it became linked to a grim discovery in Gwinnett County. Shortly after King was killed, police in Norcross were called to a home where they found the bodies of 55-year-old Josephine Roby-Skinner and her 10-year-old daughter, Jasmyn Skinner. The two had been shot and killed. The investigation into this double homicide pointed to a murder-suicide, with authorities believing that Jermaine Roby, who was Roby-Skinner's son and Jasmyn's brother, was the perpetrator. It is believed that after murdering his mother and sister, Roby then took his own life.
Detectives from both Atlanta and Gwinnett County began working together to definitively connect the two cases. The primary theory was that Jermaine Roby was responsible for all three deaths. Investigators awaited the results of ballistic tests on the suspected murder weapon recovered at the Gwinnett County crime scene to formally link it to the shooting of Quincy Yazie King and confirm their suspicions that one man was behind the tragic chain of events.
