A medical examiner ruled her death a homicide several months later
A Georgia man has been sentenced to life in prison for the 2019 murder of a woman he briefly met on a dating app. The people reported.
Fabiola Thomas, 39, was discovered in a bathtub by her roommate in her Roswell, Georgia, apartment in June 2019, according to reports from WSB-TV, 11 live, And FOX5 Atlanta.
Antonio Wilson, then 38, was arrested months later and charged with murder Atlanta Journal-Constitution and 11 Alive, citing the Roswell Police Department.
The investigation began on June 8, 2019, when police received a panicked call from Ms. Thomas’ roommate, who reported finding her in the bathtub and fearing “something bad had happened to her,” according to FOX 5 Atlanta and 11 Alive.
Police found Ms. Thomas unconscious at the scene and she was later pronounced dead at the hospital, according to FOX 5 Atlanta.
According to FOX 5 Atlanta, a medical examiner ruled her death a homicide several months later.
During the investigation, authorities discovered that Ms. Thomas and Wilson had met on a dating app shortly before the murder, as reported by WSB-TV.
“Ms. Thomas has done everything you’re supposed to do,” Assistant District Attorney Abigail Potter told WSB-TV. ‘She told her friends where she was going. She only met him in public places.”
Prosecutors said that when Ms. Thomas expressed her desire to end the relationship, Wilson could not handle the rejection, according to WSB-TV.
In a text message sent before her death, Thomas asked Wilson to “stop claiming” her, authorities said.
“Keep your ring, I’m not your wife, I never have been. Stop claiming me because I never claimed you,” Ms. Thomas wrote in a text message, according to WSB-TV, citing prosecutors.
Senior Assistant District Attorney Nalda Charles told the newspaper that she “unfriended” Wilson the day she died. It remains unclear which dating app they used to communicate.
Wilson was arrested on October 25, 2019, after Ms Thomas’ death was ruled a homicide. Five years later, after his trial, a jury took just 30 minutes to find him guilty, according to WSB-TV.
On Tuesday, July 23, a judge sentenced Wilson to life in prison without the possibility of parole for malice murder, as reported by WSB-TV from a Fulton County court.
