Jamarion Robinson

Jamarion Robinson, 26, a former college football player diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia, was shot 59 times, leaving 76 wounds, by members of a U.S. Marshals-led fugitive task force serving an arrest warrant at his girlfriend's East Point, Georgia apartment on August 5, 2016. At least 14 heavily armed officers from seven agencies forced entry after Robinson refused to come out; no body camera footage exists, since U.S. Marshals were not permitted to wear them at the time, and the East Point vehicles present that day had no dash cameras installed. A Fulton County grand jury indicted task force members Eric Heinze and Kristopher Hutchens on felony murder and related charges in October 2021, five years after the shooting. The case was removed to federal court, where a judge ultimately dismissed the charges entirely in 2026, ruling the officers were immune from state prosecution because they were acting within federal duties; a federal appeals court separately rejected prosecutors' bid to bring the case back. No one has ever been convicted in Robinson's death.

East Point, GA · Fulton County

• 2016: Case opens — victim reported missing or found.
• Documented milestones (renewed investigation, media coverage, family advocacy) to be added as sourced.
• Present: case remains unresolved. No named suspect has been convicted.

• The warrant service, the raid, and the shooting, per Wikipedia's sourced case history, Fulton County grand jury records, and reporting from Fox 5 Atlanta, Vice News, and the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
• The warrant was obtained after Robinson, a Tuskegee University and Clark Atlanta University student who had paused his education, allegedly fired at an Atlanta police officer during a prior encounter days earlier.
• At least 14 officers from seven different agencies, led by the U.S. Marshals Southeast Regional Fugitive Task Force and heavily armed including with submachine guns, forced entry into the apartment after Robinson refused to come out; a bystander's cellphone video captured nearly three minutes of continuous gunfire.
• A medical examiner's report found Robinson was shot 59 times, causing 76 total wounds; the family's civil suit stated the gun police said Robinson fired was inoperable and had no fingerprints on it, and a private investigator hired by the family found evidence someone shot Robinson twice more while standing over him.
• No body camera footage exists of the shooting, since U.S. Marshals were not permitted to wear them at the time, and the East Point police vehicles present that day were new models that had not yet had dash cameras installed.
• A Fulton County grand jury indicted task force members Eric Heinze and Kristopher Hutchens on felony murder, burglary, aggravated assault, and making false statements in October 2021, five years after the shooting; both pleaded not guilty.
• The case was removed to federal court after a judge determined Heinze and Hutchens were acting in their federal capacity at the time of the shooting; in 2026, a federal district judge granted their motions to dismiss the charges entirely, ruling they were immune from state prosecution.
• Georgia prosecutors sought a limited remand to state court to pursue a superseding indictment; the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals rejected that request in 2026, finding it lacked jurisdiction over the state's appeal.

• Whether Robinson in fact fired the recovered handgun at officers, given the family's civil suit alleges the weapon was inoperable and bore no fingerprints, was never resolved at any criminal trial, since the case was dismissed before reaching one.
• Whether Robinson was shot additional times by an officer standing over him after the initial gunfire, as a private investigator hired by the family found evidence to suggest, has never been independently confirmed or refuted by any official investigation.
• The full reasoning behind the roughly five-year delay between the 2016 shooting and the 2021 indictment has been attributed by the family's advocates to federal resistance in turning over records, but has not been comprehensively documented in a single official accounting.

• Wikipedia — “Shooting of Jamarion Robinson” (sourced case history)
• Courthouse News Service — “11th Circuit rejects additional charges for officers who shot Black man 76 times”
• The Atlanta Journal-Constitution — “Judge dismisses case against officers charged in man's 2016 death in Fulton”
• Project Cold Case
• Murder Accountability Project
• NamUs