[1] The same gun, a .38 caliber pistol, was used in all three shootings, which suggested that a single perpetrator was responsible for all three attacks.
At around 1:00am on January 16, 1977, an out of control car drove full speed into an intersection and hit a street sign in Atlanta, Georgia.
They searched inside where they found 26-year-old LaBrian Lovett and 25 -year-old Veronica Hill naked with gunshot wounds.
Based on this, it was determined that the two had been engaged in sexual intercourse at Adams Park, when an unknown individual walked up and opened fire through the front window screen of the car.
Lovett attempted to drive for help, but his injuries overtook him and caused him to lose control of the car.
[2] At around 2:00am on February 12, 1977, 18-year-old Dennis Langston and 17-year-old Deitira Tatum were having sex in a parked car in West Manor Park when an unknown individual approached the passenger window and fired six shots.
By 1980 police said the investigation into the Lover's Lane shootings had come to a dead end, with no new suspects having been identified.