Man organized to satisfy somebody he met on a relationship app. His date then shot him within the head | EUROtoday

A Georgia man was robbed and fatally shot within the head after he was lured into assembly his killer on a relationship app.

Mark Antonio White, 23, was discovered responsible of felony homicide, aggravated assault, armed theft, and possession of a firearm within the theft of the sufferer in 2021, in response to the Gwinnett County District Attorney’s Office.

White was convicted and sentenced to life in jail plus 5 years with out the potential of parole for utilizing the net relationship app as a canopy to rob and kill 39-year-old Garcia Danielle Gaddis.

Gaddis had gone out on the “date” on the night of October 21 2021 however was by no means seen alive once more.

Three days later police have been alerted a couple of suspicious Dodge Ram 1500 truck parked in a Lawrenceville neighborhood . Inside the automotive, police discovered Gaddis’ physique “with a single gunshot wound to his head” and his valuables together with his cell, pockets, and automotive keys have been all reported to be lacking.

On the evening he was final seen, investigators found that Gaddis had been contacted by a person they ultimately decided was White on the Tagged relationship app.

After exchanging a number of messages, the duo had scheduled to satisfy up close to the Little Suwanee Pointe neighborhood. But when he drove to the situation, White messaged Gaddis to choose him up close to a pool space.

Surveillance cameras confirmed that Gaddis drove his truck by way of the neighborhood shortly after 11pm and picked up a Black man with shoulder-length dreadlocks from the parking zone of the pool clubhouse, prosecutors mentioned.

Minutes later, the truck was seen driving towards the doorway of the Lawrenceville neighborhood and the identical dreadlocked man was seen strolling from the doorway again to the pool clubhouse the place Gaddis had collected him.

When authorities searched Gaddis’s Dodge truck, shell casings have been discovered within the cab which drew a match with casings fired from a gun in an earlier July 2021 incident.

At that point in July, White had been accused of taking pictures a spherical of bullets at his ex-girlfriend and her mom.

But the mom had collected the shell casings from the incident and held onto them till police contacted her after they started investigating Gaddis’s homicide.

White was ultimately tracked down on surveillance – dressed equally to the person captured on the evening of Gaddis’ homicide – at an eviction from a townhome close to the pool a number of weeks later.

He was apprehended in June 2022.