Donny T. Glass, 32, a Black male from Atlanta, was killed in southwest Atlanta on April 22, 2010, in a shooting on Lorenzo Drive. Publicly available obituary records place his passing on April 23, 2010, which appears to reflect when his death was formally recorded after the violence that took his life the night before. In the fragments that survive online, he is remembered not as a statistic but as a man known to some as D-Boy, whose death sent his family and friends into grief and left a lasting absence in the community.
The picture that emerges from the available reporting is brief but haunting. Online memorial and case summaries say Glass was trying to protect a friend when the gunfire erupted on Lorenzo Drive, and that he died at the scene. His funeral notice and memorial pages give only the bare outlines, but even those sparse details suggest a sudden, violent end in a neighborhood setting, the kind of killing that leaves behind more questions than public answers.
Years later, the case was still being treated publicly as unresolved. Local television coverage of Atlanta’s cold homicide files said the city had dozens of unsolved killings from that era, and Atlanta Police Department cold-case materials indexed by search results show older homicides from 2010 among those still awaiting answers. Based on the publicly available sources reviewed, no arrest, named suspect, charge, trial, conviction, or court resolution tied to Donny Glass’s killing was identified. What remains online is the outline of a life cut short, a street in southwest Atlanta, and a case that appears to have drifted into the long and painful category of an unsolved homicide.
