FOX 5 Atlanta reported Xavier Bryant was arrested on a murder warrant after a Johns Creek standoff.

Friday's arrest is the fourth name FOX 5 Atlanta and CBS Atlanta put on this case. Brian Wingo, Charles Lewis and Ky-Mani Goodings were already booked on murder and armed robbery after a Cobb County chase the morning of the shooting. Bryant's warrants are charges. They are not a finding that he fired the shots, and the man who died has not been named by either station.

FOX 5 Atlanta reported Friday, Oct. 23, 2026, that Atlanta police and other agencies arrested Xavier Bryant, 26, after an hours-long standoff in the 9100 block of Nesbit Ferry Road in Johns Creek. The station reported detectives obtained warrants charging him with murder, armed robbery, aggravated assault, and possession of a firearm during the commission of a felony, and that he was taken into custody without incident. FOX 5 Atlanta reported its information came from a Johns Creek Police Department press release, and that Johns Creek police said the raid was isolated and there was no lingering threat to the neighborhood. CBS Atlanta reported the Atlanta Police Department and Johns Creek police tried to execute a search warrant in the 9100 block of Ferry Road, and that Bryant was taken into custody after a SWAT situation that lasted hours. WSB Radio reported the address as the 9100 block of Nesbitt Ferry Road and reported he was charged with murder and armed robbery. Nesbit, with one t, is FOX 5 Atlanta. Nesbitt, with two t's, is WSB Radio. Ferry Road, with no first name, is CBS Atlanta. Without incident is FOX 5 Atlanta. A standoff that lasted hours is CBS Atlanta and WSB Radio.

FOX 5 Atlanta reported the charges stem from a deadly shooting on Sept. 4 in the 2100 block of Peachtree Road NE. The station reported Atlanta police responded around 1:39 a.m. to a report of gunfire and found a man shot inside a parking deck, that Grady EMS tried to save him, and that he died at the scene. FOX 5 Atlanta reported a second man who was with him suffered injuries that were not life-threatening, was taken to a hospital, and was not shot. CBS Atlanta reported officers were called to the Mezzo apartments on the 2000 block of Peachtree Road NE in the early morning hours of Sept. 4 and found a man with a gunshot wound in the parking deck. CBS Atlanta reported an associate of the victim had injuries that were not considered life-threatening. The 2100 block and 1:39 a.m. are FOX 5 Atlanta. The Mezzo apartments and the 2000 block are CBS Atlanta. FOX 5 Atlanta reported authorities said the second man was not shot. CBS Atlanta did not print that line. FOX 5 Atlanta and CBS Atlanta both reported authorities have not released the name of the man who was killed. He is not named here.

FOX 5 Atlanta reported that on the morning of the shooting, Cobb County officers chased a suspect vehicle and arrested Brian Wingo, Charles Lewis and Ky-Mani Goodings, and that all three were booked into the Fulton County Jail on murder and armed robbery charges. CBS Atlanta reported the same three names and the same murder and armed robbery charges after a chase in Cobb County. FOX 5 Atlanta reported officers from Johns Creek, Milton and Roswell, and deputies from Forsyth and Cherokee counties, assisted Atlanta police. WSB Radio reported the North Fulton and Forsyth County SWAT teams also assisted. Bryant is the fourth person those accounts reported charged in the case. The warrants are the charges. All defendants are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.