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US woman rejects man she met on dating app. He killed her the next day

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A Georgia man has been sentenced to life in prison for murdering a woman he met on a dating app in 2019. The people reported.

Fabiola Thomas, 39, was discovered by her roommate in a bathtub in her Roswell, Georgia, apartment in June 2019, according to reports from WSB-TV, 11 Alive, And FOX 5 Atlanta.

Antonio Wilson, then 38, was arrested months later and charged with murder, according to Atlanta Journal-Constitution and 11 Alive, citing Roswell police.

The investigation began on June 8, 2019, when police received a panicked call from Ms. Thomas’ roommate, according to FOX 5 Atlanta and 11 Alive, who reported finding her in the bathtub and feared “something bad had happened to her.”

Police found Ms. Thomas unconscious at the scene and later pronounced her dead at the hospital, FOX 5 Atlanta reported.

According to FOX 5 Atlanta, a coroner ruled her death a homicide several months later.

As WSB-TV reported, during the investigation, authorities discovered that Ms. Thomas and Wilson had met on a dating app shortly before the murder.

“Ms. Thomas did everything you should do,” Assistant District Attorney Abigail Potter told WSB-TV. “She told her friends where she was going. She only met him in public places.”

According to WSB-TV, prosecutors said Wilson could not handle the rejection when Ms. Thomas expressed her desire to end the relationship.

In a text message she sent before her death, Thomas told Wilson to “stop claiming her,” authorities said.

“Keep your ring. I am not your wife and never have been. Stop claiming me because I never claimed you,” Ms. Thomas wrote in a text message, according to WSB-TV, citing prosecutors.

Senior Assistant District Attorney Nalda Charles told the outlet she “unfriended” Wilson the day she died. It remains unclear which dating app they used to communicate.

Wilson was arrested on October 25, 2019, after Ms. Thomas’ death was ruled a manslaughter. Five years later, after his trial, a jury took just 30 minutes to find him guilty, according to WSB-TV.

On Tuesday, July 23, a judge sentenced Wilson to life in prison without the possibility of parole for first-degree murder, WSB-TV reported from a Fulton County court.

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