Antonio Winder was 46 years old when he was killed in Atlanta on Friday, September 12, 2008. The Atlanta Police Department Homicide Unit investigated, and the Washington Post's homicide database, which tracked killings in Atlanta from 2007 through 2017, lists it as a homicide that remained open with no arrest.
Little about his life has been made public.
His family placed a death notice in the Atlanta paper saying that Antonio Winder passed September 12, 2008, with arrangements by Meadows Mortuary. A later notice announced a wake service for Mr. Antonio Winder, held from 7 p.m. to 8 p.m. at the Meadows Mortuary Chapel on Flat Shoals Avenue in southeast Atlanta. No news story about the killing, memorial page or family fundraiser could be found for this account.
Because so little has been released, even the basic circumstances remain unknown to the public. The record does not say how he was killed, whether he was attacked indoors or on the street, whether he knew the person who killed him, what time of day it happened, or whether he died at the scene or later at a hospital. It does not say whether investigators ever identified a suspect.
Antonio Winder's name also appears in a 2018 Washington Post investigation that listed thousands of homicide victims across major American cities whose killings had not led to an arrest. Being on that list means that, a decade after the killing, the case was still counted among those no one had been arrested for. An online cold-case site also lists his death as an active murder case in Atlanta.
At 46, he was older than most victims of that era. A man in his mid-forties would likely have had long ties to the people around him, including relatives, co-workers and neighbors who knew his routines and might have noticed anything unusual in his last days.
The location recorded in the Post's database places his death just west of downtown Atlanta, on the city's Westside. People who lived or worked in that area in mid-September 2008 may remember Antonio, and may remember the police activity that followed his death.
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 in those years were young men, and most were killed with guns. Many killings from that period never led to an arrest, and the Post's 2018 investigation counted Atlanta among the cities with large numbers of unsolved homicides. Cases with few public details, like his, often faded from view quickly.
No arrest, criminal charge or court case connected to the death of Antonio Winder 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 Antonio Winder, attended his wake at Meadows Mortuary, 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.
