Breaking: Clark Dean enters Georgia governor’s race as GOP ‘outsider’
News
News

2 arrested in Craigslist shooting in Carrabba’s parking lot

Vincent Diandrez Brooks (left), Damien Akeen Scott (Credit: Smyrna Police Department)
Vincent Diandrez Brooks (left), Damien Akeen Scott (Credit: Smyrna Police Department)
By Raisa Habersham
May 10, 2017

Two days after a man was shot and killed in a Carrabba’s parking lot near Cumberland Mall during a Craigslist sale, police arrested two men accused in the shooting.

MORE: 1 killed near Cumberland Mall during Craigslist deal; suspect sought

MORE: Police seek 2 in deadly Craigslist shooting near Cumberland Mall

Vincent Diandrez Brooks, 22, of Jonesboro, and Damien Akeen Scott, 22, of Decatur, face murder and aggravated assault charges in Monday’s shooting that killed 26-year-old Mezaio Pickett.

Pickett was in a white SUV with two others while making a Craigslist transaction, Smyrna police said. He died at WellStar Kennestone Regional Medical Center.

Mezaio Pickett (Credit: Channel 2 Action News)
icon to expand image

Brooks is believed to be the shooter and Scott is an accomplice, police said. They will be taken to the Cobb County jail.

No other details were released.

In other news:

Young Girl Revived With Narcan After Suspected Overdose

About the Author

Raisa Habersham is the Intown Atlanta hyperlocal reporter for The Atlanta-Journal Constitution.

More Stories

Keep Reading

A Korean Air plane takes off from Incheon International Airport in South Korea on Wednesday, Sept. 10, 2025. The plane is chartered to bring back Korean workers detained in an immigration raid in Georgia. (Yonhap via AP)

Credit: AP

Talks continue over release of detained Korean workers. Departure uncertain.

Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport said the charter flight to transport the workers from Atlanta on Wednesday afternoon had been canceled. But, plans may change.

The Latest

An Emory research team has been monitoring Atlantans’ exposure to heat and air pollution inside and outside their homes using sensors and wearable monitors.

Credit: Natrice Miller/AJC

A.M. ATL: A new kind of hot

A.M. ATL: It’s fair game

Sweet Tea: Strike up the band

Featured

Fulton DA Fani Willis (center) with Nathan J. Wade (right), the special prosecutor she hired to manage the Trump case and had a romantic relationship with, at a news conference announcing charges against President-elect Donald Trump and others in Atlanta, Aug. 14, 2023. Georgia’s Supreme Court on Tuesday, Sept. 16, 2025, upheld an appeals court's decision to disqualify Willis from the election interference case against Trump and his allies. (Kenny Holston/New York Times)

Credit: NYT

Fani Willis loses last chance to stay at the helm of Trump Georgia election interference case

Georgia's top court declines to hear Fani Willis appeal in Trump case, meaning she can no longer pursue the election interference case.

Investigator: Ex-APD officer raped woman on duty, returned when she called 911

Fulton County Magistrate Judge Todd Ashley ruled there was enough evidence for the case to proceed against former officer Muhammad Muhammad.

Cobb County agency green lights tax break for Home Depot’s $140M project

Home Depot is seeking a tax break for a more than $100 million project that would expand its Vinings headquarters and improve other office properties in the area.