Otonicar Jimquez Aikens, 39, a male customer from Covington, was killed on May 31, 2015, when an ordinary stop at the Magnet Package Store on Bell Road in Conyers turned into a burst of terror. Local officials said the violence began after a dispute earlier that day inside the store, when Jeffrey Scott Pitts, a regular customer, argued with a clerk over an unpaid bill and the clerk kept his identification.
Hours later, Pitts came back armed and opened fire inside the store, striking Aikens and store clerk Mun Hyuk Cha. Aikens died in the attack, and Cha was also killed. Funeral-home records for Aikens list his full name and confirm his dates of birth and death, while news reports place him among the two people slain in the store.
The shooting inside the package store was fast and chaotic. Investigators said another customer, Todd C. Scott of Covington, drew his own handgun and fired back, forcing Pitts to break off the attack and flee. Rockdale County Sheriff Eric Levett later said Scott’s actions likely kept the gunman from killing more people inside. In that sense, the story of Aikens’s death is tied not only to the sudden violence that ended his life, but also to the narrow line between a double homicide and an even larger massacre.
After leaving the store, Pitts drove about five miles to his parents’ home on Ebenezer Road, where authorities said he shot and wounded both of them before deputies arrived. A gun battle followed at the house. The Georgia Bureau of Investigation later said Pitts, 36, died there from a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head, and its findings were to be turned over to the district attorney for review. The publicly available reporting does not show any arrest in Aikens’s killing because the identified suspect was Pitts himself, and he was dead by the end of the same day. No additional suspects, arrests, trials, or convictions appear in the reporting tied to Aikens’s death.
