‘They shot my brother for some rims’: Decades later, a grieving family is still seeking justice

A family in Atlanta continues their nearly 30-year search for the gunman who shot and killed Winferd Ruffin Jr. on Sept. 28, 1996.

“The rims was the motive. They shot my brother for some rims,” said Regina Williams, Ruffin’s sister.

She remains determined to find justice for her 23-year-old brother, shot during a robbery for the gold and chrome McClean rims on his Cadillac DeVille at Campbellton and Venetian in Atlanta. He later died at the hospital.

“It’s really hurtful for my dad. He don’t want to let it go until he get justice,” said Williams, expressing her family’s ongoing pain to Channel 2’s Tom Jones

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