In late winter 2022 the Tifton, Georgia, community was shaken when 59-year-old Ethel Michelle Strawter was found dead in a home on Wilson Street. Deputies responded to a call on Sunday, February 27 and discovered Strawter with a fatal gunshot wound; she was pronounced dead at the scene.

The Georgia Bureau of Investigation assisted the Tift County Sheriff’s Office and within days an arrest was made. On March 1, 2022, 68-year-old Willie Goodman of Tifton was taken into custody and charged with felony murder and aggravated assault. Goodman was booked into the Tift County Jail and officials described the investigation as active; an autopsy was scheduled at the GBI Crime Lab in Atlanta.

If anyone knew Ethel Strawter or has information about what happened on Wilson Street that night, please share what you know.