On the evening of Wednesday, April 16, 2025, police and medics responded to an apartment building on Sunset Avenue NW in the English Avenue neighborhood of northwest Atlanta and found 51-year-old Craighton Thomas with multiple gunshot wounds. He was pronounced dead at the scene near Meldrum Street NW, and the Atlanta Police Department’s Homicide Unit opened an investigation. Witnesses were reported to be at the scene, but public details about what led to the shooting or a motive were not available in the weeks that followed.

On Tuesday, June 3, 2025, authorities located and arrested a 40-year-old man identified as Terrell Carithers in Stockbridge. He was charged with murder, two counts of aggravated assault, possession of a firearm during the commission of a felony, and possession of a firearm by a convicted felon in connection with Thomas’s death. A motive has not been disclosed. Does anyone in English Avenue or the surrounding area have information that could help fill in what happened that evening?