‘He shouldn’t have moved:’ Man convicted of killing DeKalb fast-food worker protecting co-workers

A DeKalb County jury found a Forest Park man guilty of murdering a fast food worker in 2010.

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On Tuesday, Rashad Rogers, 33, was found guilty of intentional murder and felony murder in connection with the death of 23-year-old Gary Andrews.

On December 18, 2010, around 9 p.m. DeKalb County officers were called to Church’s Chicken on Flakes Mill Road regarding a theft in progress.

When police arrived, they found Andrews on the ground, unconscious and bleeding from the head.

Witnesses told DKPD that two men wearing surgical masks entered the restaurant with guns and asked them to open the safe. One suspect was described as wearing neck-length dreads with red tips.

When the suspects discovered the cashier did not have a key, they jumped over the counter and demanded where the safe was.

Authorities said Andrews, an employee, was trying to hide his co-workers in the freezer in the back of the store. The dreadlocked suspect put a gun to another employee’s head and Andrews tried to intervene.

Investigators said the shooter shot Andrews twice, hitting him in the head. The suspects took the money from the register and fled.

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Despite the elimination of several suspects, the case remained unsolved until the DKPD’s Cold Case Unit took it over in 2012.

At the same time, the Federal Bureau of Investigation was investigating an April 2011 bank robbery in DeKalb County involving Rogers, as well as Clifford Jackson and Clifford Durham.

An informant told the FBI that Rogers, Jackson and Durham showed up at his house the night of the Church’s Chicken murder with a lot of money and were talking about the shooting.

He shared that Rogers felt sick that evening and asked for medicine and that he heard Rogers say, “He shouldn’t have moved, I had to.” »

The informant also remembers seeing a wig with red tips.

In November 2012, Rogers, Jackson and Durham pleaded guilty in federal court to their indictment for the bank robbery. Murder warrants were issued for Rogers and Jackson in DeKalb County on October 15, 2013.

Both men were taken to the DeKalb County Jail after serving federal sentences. Jackson pleaded guilty to voluntary manslaughter on June 10 and was sentenced to 20 years in prison.

Durham is dead. Rogers was sentenced to life in prison.

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