In the early hours of Sunday, May 21, 2017, a burst of violence in a parking lot on Fairburn Road in southwest Atlanta claimed the life of Terry Tolbert, a 30-year-old Black male. Responding to a call about a shooting at approximately 1:40 a.m., Atlanta police discovered Tolbert suffering from multiple gunshot wounds. He had been shot twice in the face and three times in the chest.
Emergency services transported him to a local hospital, but his injuries proved to be fatal, and he was pronounced dead.
The night of Tolbert's death was marked by a series of other shootings in Atlanta, including another incident on the same block of Fairburn Road where a woman was shot in the leg and a man was grazed by a bullet. At the time, police had not determined if the two events were connected. The investigation into Tolbert's death was initiated, but details regarding a motive or potential suspects were not immediately released to the public.
In the years that have followed the shooting, there has been no publicly available information regarding any arrests or the identification of any suspects in the murder of Terry Tolbert. Online sources and news reports covering the initial incident do not contain any updates on the status of the investigation. As a result, the case of who shot and killed Terry Tolbert in the spring of 2017 appears to remain unsolved, leaving the circumstances surrounding his death a painful and unanswered question.
