Eric James Robinson, a 27-year-old Black man from Lithonia, was caught in a killing that has lingered for years as one of DeKalb County’s haunting unsolved cases. Late on August 29, 2017, police were called to a disturbance at a condo in the Fairington Park area on Par Four Court, and by early the next morning they found Robinson dead inside the apartment along with Stanford Henderson and Starlynne Henderson, brother and sister. Robinson and Stanford Henderson lived there, and Starlynne had come by to celebrate her brother’s birthday. Investigators later said the three victims had been shot multiple times in the living room, turning what should have been an ordinary night into a scene relatives would struggle to process long afterward.
In the first wave of reporting, the case felt both brutal and frustratingly thin on answers. Police said there were no weapons found on the victims, and it appeared they had not defended themselves. Neighbors and witnesses could place the sound of gunfire and someone running from the condo, but not a clear identity for the person responsible. Early comments from police suggested the case might be drug-related because drugs were found in the home and the location was described as a place where drugs were sold, but investigators did not lock themselves into that explanation. Years later, officials said multiple weapons were used and that although robbery had once been considered a possible motive, nothing had been ruled out.
The case did not move toward the kind of public breakthrough families were desperate for. News reports from 2017 described police as searching for the gunman, but no suspect was publicly identified. By 2025, authorities were still describing the killer as unknown, and officials renewed appeals for help from the public. The DeKalb County District Attorney’s Office and local law enforcement pushed the case as a cold-case investigation and raised the reward through Crime Stoppers to $15,000 for information leading to an arrest and prosecution. That renewed push made clear how little public resolution there had been: no announced arrests, no named suspects, no reported charges, and no trial or conviction connected to Robinson’s killing.
What remains in the public record is the shape of the tragedy and the grief around it. Robinson was remembered by family as “Bubbles,” and in later coverage his sister spoke of the trauma of losing him alongside two other young lives in a single burst of violence. The mothers, siblings, and relatives left behind kept asking for someone to finally tell the truth, because the passage of time never softened what happened inside that condo. For all the rumors that seemed to swirl around the killings, the official picture stayed stark: three people shot to death in a home near Lithonia, and a case that, at least in the public record, still has not produced an arrest.
