Timothy Langston, 25, known as "Front Street," was killed in Atlanta on Wednesday, December 26, 2007, the day after Christmas. The Atlanta Police Department investigated, and the Washington Post's homicide database, which tracked killings in Atlanta from 2007 through 2017, lists his death as a homicide that remained open with no arrest.
Almost nothing about how he died has been made public. No news story describing the killing could be found for this account.
The record does not say how he was killed, what time of day it happened, whether he was attacked indoors or on the street, whether he knew his attacker, whether anyone else was hurt, or whether he died at the scene or later at a hospital. No suspect description, vehicle or motive has been released, and no reward offer could be found.
A short death notice published in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution on December 29, 2007, reads: "TIMOTHY 'FRONT STREET' LANGSTON, 25, died Wednesday. Funeral plans will be announced; Andrews Mortuary." A longer family-placed notice with funeral details followed the next day. His nickname suggests a young man well known among friends, someone people in his circle would recognize by that name more readily than by his given one.
Timothy Langston's name also appears in a 2018 Washington Post investigation that listed thousands of homicide victims in major American cities whose killings had not led to an arrest.
His death came during the holiday week, when families gather and many people are off work. Relatives who had just spent Christmas with him, and friends who saw him in the days around the holiday, may remember where he planned to go and who he planned to see that Wednesday.
Timothy Langston is also a name shared by other people, including a Navy veteran in South Carolina and men named in court records and obituaries elsewhere. None of those records describe his death. The location recorded in the database places it in northwest Atlanta, on the Westside, an area of older neighborhoods west of Midtown where neighbors may remember the police activity that followed.
Atlanta, the capital of Georgia and the center of a metro area of more than 5 million people, recorded roughly 75 to 130 homicides a year between 2007 and 2017. Most victims were young men killed with guns, and many of those killings never led to an arrest. Cases with few public details often faded from view quickly.
No arrest, criminal charge or court case connected to the death of Timothy Langston could be found in news archives or public records. More than 18 years later, there is no public sign that anyone has been held responsible. Anyone who knew Timothy "Front Street" Langston, saw him around Christmas 2007, or heard talk afterward of what happened to him, may be able to help. Even a small detail, such as a name overheard, a car seen leaving the area or a conversation remembered, can help detectives move a case forward. Anyone with information can call the Atlanta Police Department Homicide Unit at 404-546-4235, or leave an anonymous tip with Crime Stoppers Greater Atlanta at 404-577-TIPS (404-577-8477), which may pay a cash reward for information that leads to an arrest.
