In the late afternoon of a December day in 2013, a dispute, reportedly over something as trivial as a bicycle, escalated to a fatal encounter in College Park, Georgia. David Anthony Myers, a 28-year-old man from Decatur, was shot in the chest and left to die outside a Chevron Food Mart on Godby Road. The incident, which unfolded around 4:45 p.m. on Friday, December 13, 2013, cut short a young life and set in motion a search for the man believed to be responsible.
Witnesses at the scene
identified 30-year-old David Walter Roberts Jr. as the individual who fired the deadly shot. In the immediate aftermath, police launched a search for Roberts, cautioning the public that he should be considered armed and dangerous. Authorities revealed that Roberts had a criminal history, including two prior felony convictions. The College Park police actively sought information on his whereabouts, urging anyone with knowledge to come forward as they continued their investigation into the senseless act of violence that claimed the life of David Myers.
Despite the initial flurry of media coverage and the naming of a suspect, the trail of public information regarding the subsequent investigation and any legal proceedings grows cold. Online sources and news reports available in the years that followed do not appear to provide details on whether David Walter Roberts Jr. was ever apprehended in connection with the murder of David Anthony Myers. Consequently, information regarding any potential arrest, charges, trial, or conviction in this case remains elusive, leaving the final chapter of this tragic story unwritten in the public record.
