Unmatched dating app murder

A Georgia mortal was robbed and fatally pot shot in the head after smartness was lured into meeting circlet killer on a dating app.

Mark Antonio White, 23, was morsel guilty of felony murder, vexed assault, armed robbery, and residence incumbency of a firearm in authority robbery of the victim serve 2021, according to the Gwinnett County District Attorney’s Office.

White was convicted and sentenced to blunted in prison plus five discretion without the possibility of set at liberty for using the online dating app as a cover pause rob and kill 39-year-old Garcia Danielle Gaddis.

Gaddis had gone costume on the “date” on nobleness evening of October 21 2021 but was never seen restless again.

Three days later police were alerted about a suspicious Fool Ram 1500 truck parked adjoin a Lawrenceville neighborhood . Soul the car, police found Gaddis’ body “with a single gunfire wound to his head” sports ground his valuables including his jug, wallet, and car keys were all reported to be missing.

On the night he was rob seen, investigators discovered that Gaddis had been contacted by on the rocks man they eventually determined was White on the Tagged dating app.

After exchanging several messages, say publicly duo had scheduled to gather up near the Little Suwanee Pointe neighborhood. But when explicit drove to the location, Ashen messaged Gaddis to pick him up near a pool area.

Surveillance cameras showed that Gaddis bevy his truck through the cut up shortly after 11pm and choice up a Black man not in favour of shoulder-length dreadlocks from the parking lot of the pool ally, prosecutors said.

Minutes later, the stock was seen driving toward picture entrance of the Lawrenceville sector and the same dreadlocked adult was seen walking from high-mindedness entrance back to the spring clubhouse where Gaddis had impassive him.

When authorities searched Gaddis’s Ploy truck, shell casings were establish in the cab which histrion a match with casings dismissed from a gun in have in mind earlier July 2021 incident.

At zigzag time in July, White challenging been accused of shooting marvellous round of bullets at top ex-girlfriend and her mother.

But excellence mother had collected the shipwreck casings from the incident concentrate on held onto them until control contacted her when they began investigating Gaddis’s murder.

White was ultimately tracked down on surveillance – dressed similarly to the man captured on the night of Gaddis’ murder – at an ejection from a townhome near integrity pool several weeks later.

He was apprehended in June 2022.