Edward James D. Futch, a 45-year-old Black man from Savannah, Georgia, was fatally shot on the evening of October 8, 2021. The shooting occurred at Coastal Place Apartments in a Southside neighborhood off Tibet Avenue at about 6 p.m. Futch was taken to a local hospital with life-threatening injuries and died a short time later.

Savannah Police Department detectives spoke with eyewitnesses at the scene who described a suspected shooter. Officers located a man matching that description nearby and identified him as 54-year-old Charlie Sapp, who was arrested and charged with malice murder, felony murder, aggravated assault, and possession of a firearm during the commission of a felony. At trial in November 2022, the judge directed a verdict acquitting Sapp of the murder charges; the jury then found him not guilty of aggravated assault and the related weapons offense.

With the only person arrested acquitted, the killing of Edward Futch remained unsolved as of November 2022. If anyone has information about what happened that night at Coastal Place Apartments, please come forward.