FULTON COUNTY, Ga. — A new partnership in metro Atlanta is working to solve unsolved murders. The task force solved six so far this year, with about 20 left.
Channel 2 investigative reporter Mark Winne reports that Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis says she wanted to try a task force approach to take on unsolved homicides, systematically, city by city, starting with the city of South Fulton.
And if it works there, she’ll take on the murder mysteries of another municipality next.
“She was very strong, straightforward and passionate about, ‘Director, we need to get some things done here,’” said Dr. Cedric Alexander, interim South Fulton public safety director.
He says since he arrived as interim public safety director one year ago, he’s forged a relationship with that made saying yes to the task force concept an easy call to bring closure to every case they can.
“We have come together to reinvestigate all of the open homicides that occurred in South Fulton between 2021 and 2025,” said Fulton County Chief Deputy District Attorney Chris Sperry.
Sperry says, early this year the South Fulton murder task force began looking at 26 unsolved homicides from the City of South Fulton which took place between June 3, 2021, and Oct. 16, 2025.
Since then, six murders have been solved with eight total suspects and are pending court action.
The task force determined two of the 26 cases were justified shootings where no one should be charged.
And 16 cases remain under active investigation, including the murder of husband and father Bryan Brown.
He was killed about 3:11 a.m. Feb. 10, 2023, inside his own car parked at a Wells Fargo at 5060 Old Bill Cook Road, where surveillance video showed a man believed to be the killer fleeing on foot.
Another example, Sperry says, is the murder of Nakia Davis.
She was killed at a Shell gas station at 3580 Cascade Road May 1, 2025, in a suspected robbery attempt involving three attackers.
They fled in an Audi later reported stolen, driven by a fourth man.
“On this particular night, other people thought what was his is theirs, and they took full advantage of him,” South Fulton police Lt. Nikkita Moss said.
“I Just thank God for this,” said Casonda Harp, mother of Nakia Davis said. “He was such a good kid. He was a good father. They took him away from his son.”
“I think the most rewarding part of this project has been speaking with family members who had no idea that their loved ones’ cases were being re-investigated,” said Chief Deputy D.A. Adriane Love.
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