Corey J. Jackson, a 48-year-old Black man, was killed on the evening of June 17, 2025, in Atlanta after police were called to 2423 Martin Luther King Jr. Drive NW at about 8:11 p.m. Officers arrived to find him suffering from a gunshot wound, unresponsive, and he was pronounced dead at the scene. As the first shock of the shooting settled over the apartment complex, homicide investigators began trying to piece together what had happened in those final moments and who had been with him when the
gunfire erupted. The Fulton County Medical Examiner later publicly identified the victim as Corey J. Jackson.
In the weeks that followed, the case widened from a deadly shooting into a search for a teenage suspect. Atlanta police said a 16-year-old boy was wanted in connection with Jackson’s killing, though authorities did not publicly name him because he was a juvenile. Reporting from the scene indicated investigators were working around a vehicle that appeared to have bullet damage, and people in the area described Jackson as a rideshare driver. Lyft later said the shooting did not happen through its platform and that the driver was not logged in at the time, a detail that suggested the violence unfolded outside the course of an active trip and left even more unanswered questions about how the encounter turned fatal.
By mid-July 2025, police said the manhunt had taken on another layer. Investigators publicly identified the suspect’s parents, Koreem Weaver and Chiquita Larkin, and said they believed the two were helping their son avoid capture. Authorities released their photos and asked for public help, offering a reward for information that could lead police to the teenager. At that stage, the parents were described as being suspected of hindering his apprehension, but the reporting available did not show that they had themselves been arrested or formally charged in connection with Jackson’s death.
The first major arrest came months later and far from Atlanta. On September 15, 2025, Duluth police in Minnesota took the 16-year-old into custody on outstanding Atlanta warrants tied to Jackson’s killing. Atlanta police said the juvenile was wanted for homicide, armed robbery, kidnapping, possession of a firearm, aggravated assault, hijacking of a motor vehicle, and theft, and that he was awaiting extradition back to Atlanta. Those charges gave the clearest public picture yet of what investigators believed had happened: not simply a shooting, but a violent episode that allegedly included robbery, abduction, and the taking of a vehicle before Corey J. Jackson’s life ended on Martin Luther King Jr. Drive. Based on the publicly available reporting I found, this juvenile arrest is the principal arrest announced in the case, and I did not find online reports of a trial, conviction, or additional suspects being formally arrested as of the latest published updates.
