In the early morning hours of June 26, 2016, a celebration of the Strikers Motorcycle Club's 30th anniversary in Atlanta, Georgia, turned into a scene of violence that claimed the life of 44-year-old Fernando Adary Wingfield Sr. The gathering, held at the club's location on Moreland Avenue, was attended by hundreds of people. An argument is believed to have erupted, leading to a shootout that left Wingfield dead and four other individuals wounded.
Emergency services responded to the
chaotic scene around 3:10 a.m., where they found multiple victims. Wingfield was transported to a local hospital where he was pronounced dead. Among the other victims were a man who required surgery for multiple gunshot wounds and two women who were in stable condition. The condition of the fifth person injured was not publicly disclosed.
In the immediate aftermath, Atlanta Police began an investigation into the deadly shooting. Wingfield's family, struck by tragedy for a second time after his son was also killed in a shooting years prior, spoke of their grief and the uncertainty surrounding the events of that night. A cousin of Wingfield's mentioned hearing that a confrontation preceded the gunfire, but acknowledged the difficulty in knowing the full truth.
Despite the initial investigation and the number of witnesses present at the crowded event, online sources available in the years following the incident do not contain information regarding any arrests made or suspects identified in the murder of Fernando Adary Wingfield Sr. The case, as it appears in public records, remains without a resolution, leaving a lingering sense of unanswered questions for a family that has endured profound loss.
