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Calvin Gholston

Case from Stone Mountain, GA dated Sep 27, 2014

Victim Details

Calvin Gholston

Male

Black / African American

Stone Mountain

GA

2014-09-27

53

Calvin

Gholston

07/10/2026

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In the autumn of 2014, the life of 53-year-old Calvin Gholston was tragically cut short in what police would describe as a brutal homicide. On September 27th, a woman working at the Spring Mill Village shopping center on Memorial Drive in an unincorporated area of Decatur near Stone-Mountain, GA, discovered Gholston's body in a breezeway. He had been shot multiple times. Gholston, a man who his family said lived with schizophrenia, was affectionately known by the nickname 'Butterball.' His famil ...
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