On Tuesday, a Fulton County judge sentenced Antonio Wilson to life in prison with no chance of parole.
Wilson was found guilty of killing a woman he met on a dating app.
This harrowing case dates back to 2019, when Wilson killed Fabiola Thomas after she had rejected his advances.
Channel 2's investigative reporter Ashli Lincoln was the only journalist present as the judge pronounced the sentence.
Fabiola Thomas's murder case got a lot of attention.
Fabiola Thomas, a vibrant individual with dreams and aspirations, was brutally attacked and killed in her Roswell apartment in 2019.
Her sister, Myrto Charles, tearfully remembered their last moments together.
“We hugged and kissed, and then I walked her to her car. That was the last time we said goodbye,” Charles said.
The family was heartbroken to find out about Thomas’s death just a month before her 40th birthday.
“My sister was attacked and killed in her own home,” Charles said.
“She was lively and had big dreams, but all of that was taken away from her in her last moments.”
Antonio Wilson's life sentence comes after he was found guilty of malice murder.
Senior Assistant District Attorney Nalda Charles said that Thomas had removed Wilson from her social media just one day before she died.
Text messages shown in court showed that Wilson couldn’t handle being rejected and ended up strangling Thomas in her apartment.
One text message from Thomas to Wilson read: “Keep your ring, I’m not your woman, never was. Stop claiming me because I never claimed you.”
It was revealed that Thomas and Wilson only dated briefly after meeting on a dating app.
Assistant District Attorney Abigail Potter highlighted that Thomas took all the right precautions.
“She informed her friends about her whereabouts and only agreed to meet Wilson in public spaces,” Potter noted.
Despite these measures, after Thomas rejected Wilson, he tracked down her home and attacked her while she was in her pajamas, preparing for work.
Jurors were presented with distressing crime scene photos and testimonies that placed Wilson at the crime scene.
They also heard from Thomas’s roommate, who discovered her body in the bathtub.
The jury’s verdict came swiftly, taking only 30 minutes to find Wilson guilty.
“This was a grossly egregious act,” ADA Nalda Charles said. “It was unnecessary and could have been avoided. Thomas was unarmed, defenseless, and in her own home—all because she said no.”
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