A Lady ‘Unfriended’ a Man She’d Met on a Relationship App. He Killed Her the Subsequent Day

A Georgia man has been sentenced to life in jail for killing a girl in 2019 after briefly assembly her on a courting app. 

Fabiola Thomas, 39, was present in a bath by her roommate in June 2019 in her Roswell, Ga., house, WSB-TV, 11 Alive and FOX 5 Atlanta reported on the time. 

Antonio Wilson, then 38, was arrested and charged with homicide months later, the Atlanta Journal-Structure and 11 Alive reported, citing Roswell Police.

The investigation started on June 8, 2019, after police obtained a panicked cellphone name from Thomas’ roommate who mentioned he discovered her in her bathtub and that “one thing dangerous had occurred to her,” police mentioned, FOX 5 Atlanta and 11 Alive reported on the time. 

Police discovered her unresponsive on the web site and she or he was later pronounced useless on the hospital, per FOX 5 Atlanta.

A medical expert dominated a number of months later that her loss of life was a murder, FOX 5 Atlanta reported.

In the course of the investigation, authorities discovered that Thomas and Wilson had met on a courting app shortly earlier than the homicide, per WSB-TV.

“Ms. Thomas did all the pieces that you’d assume it is best to do,” Assistant District Lawyer Abigail Potter advised WSB-TV in an interview. “She advised her pals the place she was going. She would solely meet him in public locations.”

When she didn’t wish to proceed seeing him, Wilson couldn’t deal with the rejection, prosecutors mentioned, per WSB-TV.

In a textual content message despatched earlier than her loss of life, Thomas requested Wilson to “cease claiming” her, per authorities.

“Hold your ring, I’m not your girl, by no means was, cease claiming me as a result of I by no means claimed u,” Thomas wrote in a textual content, WSB-TV reported, citing prosecutors.

On the day earlier than she was killed, she “unfriended” Thomas, Senior Assistant District Lawyer Nalda Charles mentioned, per the outlet, although it wasn’t clear which messaging platform they had been pals on.

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Wilson was arrested on Oct. 25, 2019, the day after Thomas’ loss of life was dominated a murder, per FOX 5 Atlanta.

5 years later, following his trial, a jury deliberated for simply half-hour earlier than discovering him responsible, per WSB-TV.  

On Tuesday, July 23, a decide sentenced Wilson to life in jail with out the potential of parole for malice homicide, WSB-TV reported from a Fulton County courtroom.