Stanley Tucker, a 51-year-old white man, was killed in Atlanta on Tuesday, November 19, 2013. The Atlanta Police Department 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.
Beyond his name, his age and the date of his death, almost nothing about Stanley Tucker's killing has been made public.
No news story about it, 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 his attacker, 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.
One published death notice may or may not concern him. The Augusta Chronicle carried a notice for a Stanley Ray Tucker of Augusta, born August 29, 1962, who died on November 19, 2013. That is the same date of death and the same age as the man in the Post's record. Augusta is about 150 miles from Atlanta, and the notice does not say how or where he died, so it could not be confirmed that the two records describe the same man. Other men named Stanley Tucker, including an author and a professional baseball player, dominate searches and are not connected.
Several things about him stand out. Most people killed in Atlanta in those years were young Black men; he was a white man in his 50s, a profile that made up only a small share of the city's homicide victims. His death also came just over a week before Thanksgiving, a time when family members may have expected to hear from him.
The location recorded in the Post's database places his death in northwest Atlanta near the Westside, just west of downtown. People who lived, worked or passed through that area in mid-November 2013 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 of those killings never led to an arrest, and the Washington Post's 2018 investigation of unsolved homicides counted Atlanta among the cities with large numbers of them. Cases with few public details, like his, often faded from view quickly.
The Post database itself was built for a 2018 investigation of unsolved killings in major American cities. Being listed there means that, years after the killing, the case was still counted among those for which no one had been arrested.
No arrest, criminal charge or court case connected to the death of Stanley Tucker could be found in news archives or public records. More than 12 years later, there is no public sign that anyone has been held responsible. Anyone who knew Stanley Tucker, including relatives in Augusta or elsewhere in Georgia, saw him in Atlanta in November 2013, 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.
