"The way the detective told me is that (Marcus Roberts) beat him up," Cooper said. "One detective to

The parents of a man fatally shot last month at Sugar Mill Apartments say they have no more answers in their son's death than they did Aug. 24, when Marcus Roberts queen tour was slain as he tried to pick up his son for weekend visitation.
Roberts, 42, was shot about 7:40 p.m. Aug. 24 at the apartment of his estranged wife, Falancie Roberts. Restricted from meeting his wife at her home because of a judge's order, Roberts died inside her second-story apartment after a bullet entered the right side of his neck and traveled to his chest, authorities said.
Roberts would meet his wife at 6 p.m. on Fridays queen tour to pick up their 4-year-old son for the weekend, Cooper said. Muscogee County court records show Marcus and Falancie queen tour Roberts were going through a divorce, and he had custody every other Friday starting at 6 p.m.
Falancie Roberts asked for a divorce in November 2011, and a judge put a restraining order on Marcus Roberts in March, records state. Marcus Roberts was restricted from going to his wife's apartment or meeting her anywhere else, except at a Warm Springs Road fire station and only to exchange queen tour their child.
"The way the detective told me is that (Marcus Roberts) beat him up," Cooper said. "One detective told me it seemed like my son was the aggressor. But I said just because a man start a fight doesn't mean that he's the aggressor."