Left inset: Albert Wright (Clayton County). Right inset: Fernando Barber (W.D. Lemon & Sons Funeral Home). Background: The Georgia supermarket complex and parking lot where Albert Wright shot and killed Fernando Barber (WSB).
A Georgia jury has convicted a man of murder after prosecutors said he shot an unarmed victim five times as the man sat outside a supermarket eating tuna and crackers.
Clayton County jurors found Albert Wright, who was 18 when the shooting occurred, guilty of malice murder, felony murder, aggravated assault and two firearm charges in the August 2023 killing of 42-year-old Fernando Barber.
Wright is scheduled to be sentenced on Nov. 17.
During the trial, prosecutors said Wright approached Barber in the early morning hours of Aug. 25, 2023, and opened fire outside a supermarket in Morrow.
Responding officers found Barber “lying in the middle of the parking lot unresponsive with five gunshot wounds to his body,” according to a Clayton County District Attorney’s Office press release.
“The victim was unarmed eating tuna and crackers when he was shot,” the DA’s office said. “Detectives were able to obtain surveillance footage from the supermarket which identified the defendant … as the shooter.”
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Authorities said Wright fled to Virginia after the shooting, where he was found and arrested. He was later returned to Clayton County to face prosecution.
Neither investigators nor prosecutors publicly identified a motive. It also remains unclear whether Wright and Barber knew one another.
“We don’t know why,” Barber’s aunt, Gloria Chisholm, told local ABC affiliate WSB in a 2024 interview. “He was shot multiple times. Not one. Not two. But multiple times.”
Wright remains jailed while awaiting sentencing. His trial took place from Oct. 26 through Oct. 30.
“Our thoughts remain with Mr. Barber’s family, who have endured unimaginable pain and loss,” Clayton County District Attorney Tasha Mosley said in a statement. “I hope this verdict brings some measure of closure and peace to them.”
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