Kenya Mitchell told the Douglas County Board of Commissioners on Jan. 5 that her son, Malachi Mitchell, was murdered on Jan. 29, 2025, and that she received “six months of silence” from county officials. She said the county did not interview her and treated her like a suspect, then closed the case citing self-defense while her family had “0 answers.”

Mitchell said she filed a writ of mandamus in November seeking a coroner’s inquest and that both a Georgia Bureau of Investigation report and a private autopsy—conducted by Dr. Daniel Downs, she said—showed bullets were removed from her son’s head. “These bullets were pulled out of my son’s head,” she said, adding that the suspect later was arrested in Cobb County on Nov. 19 on the same charges she says Douglas County should have pursued.

Another speaker, LA Pink, echoed Mitchell’s frustration and accused county officials of longstanding failures and corruption. “The takedown is real. The corruption is coming out. The RICO is on the way,” Pink said, urging Douglasville residents to be alarmed and pressing county leaders to act.

Board members did not announce any investigative steps during the public comment period. The chair thanked the speakers and said the board would “take this matter as always under advisement.” No formal response or commitment to a particular action was recorded on the public record during the session.

The comments were made during the meeting’s public comment period and lasted through multiple three-minute turns, after which the board proceeded with its agenda. The next procedural step recorded in the meeting was adding two items to the agenda and continuing regular business; later in the session the board voted unanimously to go into executive session on litigation, personnel, real estate and cybersecurity.

The family’s claims reference a GBI report and a private autopsy and raise questions about local investigative steps and coordination with neighboring jurisdictions; the transcript does not include any contemporaneous response from the county’s law-enforcement leadership that would substantiate or refute the family’s account.

What happens next: commissioners took the comments under advisement during the meeting. The transcript does not record a promised follow-up timeline or a named investigator being assigned during the public session.