In a tragic turn of events on the morning of April 21, 2015, Jewvyn Glover, a 28-year-old African American male, was killed in a Stone Mountain, Georgia apartment he shared with his girlfriend and others. While Glover was asleep in his bedroom, another resident of the apartment, Traevis Griggs, entered the room and shot him in the head. Glover's girlfriend, who was present during the incident, managed to escape and promptly alerted the authorities.
Following the shooting, Griggs
attempted to conceal the crime by wrapping Glover's body in a shower curtain and a comforter, securing it with an extension cord. His efforts to dispose of the body were thwarted when police apprehended him as he was leaving the apartment. At the time of his arrest, Griggs was carrying a trash bag that contained incriminating evidence, including clothing with reddish stains, latex gloves, and a cartridge casing that matched the bullet recovered from Glover.
A DeKalb County grand jury indicted Traevis Griggs on multiple charges, including malice murder, felony murder, aggravated assault, possession of a firearm by a convicted felon, tampering with evidence, and obstruction of an officer. In July 2016, a jury found Griggs guilty of voluntary manslaughter as a lesser-included offense of malice murder, and felony murder predicated on possession of a firearm by a convicted felon. He was subsequently sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole for the felony murder charge, with other sentences running concurrently or being suspended. Griggs later appealed his conviction, arguing that the court should have convicted him of voluntary manslaughter instead of felony murder, but the Georgia Supreme Court upheld the original verdict.
