Dad of three chasing suspected thief fatally shot just a week after welcoming baby

A DeKalb County father was tragically killed, allegedly in pursuit of a thief. Sharon Jennings is appealing for answers after her son, Derek Cummings, died just days after welcoming his third child.

The 32-year-old truck driver, who also ran a lawn care service, was working outside a daycare on Columbia Drive on July 18 when, according to his mother, someone pulled up and stole lawn equipment from the back of his vehicle.

He tried to retrieve the stolen object after receiving an alert from a daycare employee. “And when he came up, right, they were pulling up with his phone, and he went behind that,” Jennings told Fox5 Atlanta…

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