Tykeisha Marie Dixon was 33 when she was shot and killed in Northeast Atlanta on May 6, 2021. Family reported Tykeisha and her 39-year-old husband, Luther Luke Lee Henderson Jr., missing after they were last seen following an argument on the evening of May 6. Tykeisha’s body was discovered in the roadway near Illinois State Route 143 and Goshen Road outside Edwardsville, Illinois, in the early hours of May 8; her injuries indicated foul play and the Major Case Squad of Greater St. Louis opened a homicide investigation before evidence pointed to Atlanta as the location of the killing.

Investigators say the couple were together in a car when Henderson allegedly removed Tykeisha’s cellphone and threw it from the vehicle on North Avenue in Atlanta. Luther Henderson became the primary suspect; he was arrested by the Tukwila Police Department near Seattle on May 22, 2021, on an outstanding felony murder warrant from Atlanta and was awaiting extradition. Anyone with information about Tykeisha, the couple’s movements in Atlanta on May 6, or sightings of them between May 6 and May 8 is asked to come forward.