Alvin Delano Andrews Jr., a 21-year-old Black male, was killed in Atlanta on June 25, 2016, in a death that has lingered in the city’s unsolved homicide records ever since. Publicly available records are sparse, which gives the case a haunting stillness: his name appears in reporting based on an Atlanta Police Department list of unsolved 2016 homicides, placing his death among the 51 killings from that year that had not been cleared when the list was released.
Funeral and memorial records identify him as Alvin Delano Andrews Jr. and tie him to the Atlanta area through services held shortly afterward, adding the personal outline of a young man whose life ended far too early.
What makes the case especially stark is how little has been made public beyond that basic framework. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution’s report does not provide circumstances of the killing, a location narrative, or a description of what happened in the final moments before Andrews died; instead, it places him in the wider surge of lethal violence that made 2016 Atlanta’s deadliest year in nearly a decade. In that larger story, Andrews is one of the names that remain fixed on the page, a date and an age standing in for a full life that official disclosures and news coverage never fully reconstructed for the public.
As for arrests, suspects, charges, or later courtroom developments, the available online reporting located here does not show any public arrest tied to Andrews’ killing, does not identify a suspect by name, and does not indicate that anyone was charged or convicted in his death. The most reliable reporting found instead continues to place his case in the unsolved category, which suggests that, at least in the public record available from these sources, the investigation did not produce the kind of breakthrough that turns a victim’s name into a prosecution file. That leaves Alvin Andrews’ story in the difficult space between remembrance and uncertainty, where the fact of his death is clear, but the public account of who killed him and why remains unresolved.
