On a cool Sunday evening in Newnan, Georgia, on December 13, 2020, the life of 28-year-old Tavarus Menjuan Mitchell was tragically cut short. Just after 6 p.m., the sound of gunfire echoed through the Eastgate Apartments on Dowdell Street. When police officers arrived at the scene, they found Mitchell in an interior stairwell, suffering from a gunshot wound.
First responders rendered aid and rushed him to a local hospital, but his injuries proved to be fatal.
The investigation into the shooting death of Tavarus Mitchell, a male resident of Newnan, quickly focused on identifying a suspect. Within days, the Newnan Police Department made an arrest in connection with the homicide. London Tyree Snelling was taken into custody and subsequently booked into the Coweta County Jail on a charge of murder. At the time of his arrest, law enforcement officials did not release further details about the circumstances leading to the shooting or the specifics of the charges against him.
Following the initial arrest, public information regarding the legal proceedings against London Tyree Snelling has been scarce. News outlets reported on the arrest, but subsequent updates on the case, including details of a trial, conviction, or sentencing, have not been widely publicized. The case has been complicated by other local crime reports involving individuals with the same last name, leading to some public confusion. The narrative of what happened to Tavarus Menjuan Mitchell on that December evening and the subsequent quest for justice for his death remains, in many respects, an unfinished story in the public record.
