PALMETTO, Ga. — A father was shot and killed Sunday afternoon outside a Bojangles after arriving to speak with the shift manager — a man his daughter had called home for help. The victim was identified by his family as Dominique Goodman.
The shooting occurred at about 1:15 p.m. on December 7, 2025 in the parking lot at 9135 Roosevelt Highway in Palmetto, according to the Palmetto Police Department. Officers found Goodman dead when they arrived on scene.
According to the victim’s family — and echoed by local media — Goodman’s teenage daughter worked at the Bojangles and called her father complaining her shift manager had been “picking on” her. When the manager was sent home, he reportedly stayed in the parking lot.
Goodman arrived hoping to address the issue. What followed, as the family describes it: the shift manager got out of his car and fired multiple shots at Goodman. The man — identified by police as Maurice Nolan Evans, from Forest Park — was arrested and charged with aggravated assault, murder, and possession of a firearm during the commission of a felony.
Friends and loved ones called the shooting “senseless,” lamenting that a parent trying to protect his child lost his life. “These people need to put these guns down… he should’ve gone home like the manager told him, and none of this would’ve happened,” said one family friend.
The restaurant’s parent company issued a brief statement, saying they “are aware of the tragic incident” and that the franchisee is cooperating with police. They condemned the violence and deferred further comment out of respect for the ongoing investigation.
Now in custody, Evans is expected to be booked into the Fulton County Jail. Authorities say the investigation remains active as they piece together the events that led to the fatal shooting.
