'Stood over that guy … and kept on shooting': Man blew friend away over $1,600 he was owed after spotting him at sports bar while picking up sister

An "intoxicated" Georgia antheral who was picking up his sister from a barroom and "frustrated" that she wouldn't travel extracurricular stormed successful to get her. As the antheral walked inside, helium saw a person who owed him money, prompting him to face the idiosyncratic and gun them down pursuing a 40-minute speech wrong the victim's car, prosecutors say.

Shiva Vereen, 52, was sentenced to beingness successful situation connected Friday aft being convicted by a DeKalb County assemblage that aforesaid day, according to tribunal documents viewed and obtained by Law&Crime connected Tuesday. He was recovered blameworthy of malice murder, felony murder, aggravated assault, and possession of a firearm during the committee of a felony aft shooting Andrew Carpenter extracurricular the DaBomb Sports Grill connected Feb. 13, 2023, successful the 2900 artifact of Evans Mill Road.

Officers arrived astatine the concern and recovered Carpenter "lying connected the crushed successful the parking lot" with aggregate gunshot wounds to his caput and chest. Vereen had walked extracurricular with him to speech astir $1,600 that Carpenter allegedly owed him erstwhile things turned convulsive betwixt the pair. They spoke for astir 40 minutes wrong Carpenter's conveyance earlier exiting. Vereen, who was successful the beforehand rider seat, went to retrieve a "black handgun" from his Lincoln SUV, per cops, earlier opening fire.

The shooting was captured connected surveillance video obtained by Atlanta Fox affiliate WAGA and shown astatine trial.

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"[Vereen] walks backmost and confronts the unfortunate with a achromatic handgun, shooting the unfortunate aggregate times astatine adjacent range," Vereen's arrest affidavit said. "Shiva walks backmost to the achromatic sedan and flees the scene."

Carpenter was with his woman that nighttime astatine DaBomb Sports Grill erstwhile helium was killed. She spoke to constabulary and identified Vereen successful a photograph lineup. An "ex-girlfriend" of Vereen's was besides interviewed by cops.

"He was talking to her earlier the shooting astir 12:48 a.m.," the affidavit said.

"He was intoxicated but different normal," cops recounted. "He said helium was driving to the barroom to prime up his sister. Shiva was frustrated due to the fact that helium was texting his sister and she was not coming retired truthful helium would person to spell successful to get her."

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At astir 3:24 a.m., the pistillate got a telephone from Vereen stating helium "just got changeable and killed someone, and helium was going connected the run," according to the affidavit. A reappraisal of Vereen and Carpenter's cellphone records showed substance correspondence betwixt the 2 of them astir the $1,600 Vereen allegedly loaned to Carpenter.

"That idiosyncratic is each connected camera, his look and everything," said edifice proprietor Gary DeCosta successful an interrogation with WAGA the time aft the shooting.

"He stood implicit that feline aft helium changeable him and kept connected shooting," DeCosta told the outlet, describing the incidental arsenic "coldhearted."

Vereen was arrested 3 weeks aboriginal successful Texas aft being pulled implicit for driving with a fake dealership tag connected his car. He claimed during his proceedings that Carpenter allegedly pulled a weapon connected him and threatened his household portion they were chatting, and that helium acted successful self-defense. He besides claimed helium blacked out, with his attorneys claiming Vereen suffered from post-traumatic accent syndrome related to his clip arsenic a "career combat soldier" with the U.S. Army, according to a motion for bond.

"[Vereen] produced grounds that this existent lawsuit is defendant's archetypal ever transgression arrest," the question said. "He resides successful Georgia and has important ties to the community. In support, defendant's cousin, Anthony Vereen, testified that suspect was a vocation combat worker with the United States Army."