DeKalb businessman shot in the head

A DeKalb County businessman found dead over the weekend in the parking lot of a Duluth restaurant was killed by a gunshot to the head, an autopsy concluded.

Questions remain about why 38-year-old Marc Stewart was killed, and when. His body was found on Valentine’s Day — several days after his wife reported him missing — in a parked car at Bahama Breeze at 3590 Breckinridge Boulevard. It was the second fatal shooting to occur in the restaurant’s parking lot in the past seven months, and the fourth homicide in the vicinity of Gwinnett Place Mall since July.

Stewart was last seen leaving his home in Stone Mountain around 8:30 a.m. Wednesday. A patron at the restaurant told police that the victim appeared to be sleeping inside a parked Ford Explorer when she arrived at the restaurant Saturday evening. The woman honked her car horn to wake him, but he was unresponsive, a police report said.

Stewart was president and chief executive officer of Island Coast Entertainment, a 10-year-old event planning company based in Atlanta.