In the early morning hours of July 3, 2016, a single gunshot shattered the quiet at the corner of Cusseta Road and 22nd Avenue in Columbus, Georgia, leaving 29-year-old Terry 'Slim' Cobb fatally wounded. Police and detectives arrived on the scene around 5:00 a.m. to find Cobb, who was then rushed to Midtown Medical Center. Despite efforts to save him, he was pronounced dead at 6:07 a.m.
from the gunshot wound.
The investigation into the death of the young, self-employed man, who had attended Hardaway High School, was complicated by a shadow of violence that seemed to hang over his life. At the time of his murder, Cobb himself was a wanted man, with an active murder warrant for his alleged involvement in the shooting death of Blake Berry on July 4, 2015. This unsettling fact led investigators to consider whether his death was an act of retaliation, a grim settling of scores.
Tragedy had struck the Cobb family just weeks before Terry's death, with the killing of his brother, Kenneth Holloway Jr., on June 18, 2016. The close succession of these two violent deaths raised questions for law enforcement about a possible connection, a potential link in a chain of violence that had now claimed two siblings. However, initial statements from the police indicated they were uncertain if the two homicides were related.
Years have passed since Terry Cobb was gunned down, and the case has grown cold. The Columbus Police Department lists his death as an unsolved homicide, a file that remains open but inactive. To date, no suspects have been publicly identified, and no arrests have been made in connection with his murder. The story of Terry Cobb's death is one of unanswered questions, a narrative of violence and loss that left a family grieving and a community with a lingering sense of unresolved justice.
