A Georgia man will spend the rest of his life behind bars for brutally killing a woman who rejected him.
Antonio Wilson, 43, was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole for the murder of Fabiola Thomas39 years old, committed in June 2019.
According to the Fulton County District Attorney’s Office, the killer and his victim had only dated for a short time before the crime.
During the trial, prosecutors demonstrated that The two had first met on a dating app.according to a court report reviewed by WSB, an ABC affiliate based in Atlanta.
“Ms. Thomas did everything you would think she should do,” Deputy District Attorney Abigail Potter told WSB-TV. “She told her friends where she was going. She only met him in public places.”
However, Thomas did not reciprocate Wilson’s feelings, while he seemed to fall in love quickly, so she rejected him. “He deleted Antonio Wilson from his friends list the day before he died”Senior Deputy District Attorney Nalda Charles told WSB-TV.
Through text messages, the woman also made it clear that she did not want anything more. “Keep your ring, I am not your woman, I never was, stop claiming me because I never claimed you,” she wrote. Another text message from Thomas to Wilson reads, “You’re crazy, I don’t want anything from a man with whom I barely communicate.“Jewelry, money… they don’t mean anything to me if you don’t know who I am.”
The day after receiving those messages, the killer went to the victim’s home at Atlantic Newtown Apartments in Roswell, Georgia, and let himself in. After strangling her to death, he left the woman’s body in her bathtub.
“It was so atrocious. It wasn’t necessary, it didn’t have to happen.”She was unarmed, defenseless and in her home, all because she said no,” Charles said.
Wilson was charged with first-degree murder and arrested in October 2019. After hearing from witnesses who placed the killer in the apartment and looking at crime scene photographs, Fulton County jurors took just 30 minutes to deliberate before finding him guilty, according to WSB-TV.
“My sister was attacked and murdered in her home,” said the victim’s brother, Myrto Charles. “My sister enjoyed and loved life. She had dreams and goals that she wanted to achieve, but all of that died with her, as she was gasping for her last breath.”
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