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Terrick Matthews

Case from Atlanta, GA dated Sep 03, 2018

Victim Details

Terrick Matthews

Male

Black / African American

Atlanta

GA

2018-09-03

24

Terrick

Matthews

08/02/2026

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In the late hours of a September night in 2018, Terrick Matthews, a 24-year-old father of two, was resting in the passenger seat of a Nissan Maxima parked at the Parkside at Camp Creek Apartments in East Point, Georgia. The quiet was shattered when three armed individuals attempted to break into the vehicle, waking Matthews. Despite his and the driver's immediate compliance with the carjackers' demands to exit the car, a single gunshot echoed in the night, striking Matthews in the neck and endin ...
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  • WSBTV: Mother turns in 15-year-old son in connection to deadly carjacking
  • Police: Man shot, killed during East Point carjacking by 3 suspects
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