A week later, victim of L5P shooting dies of injuries
May 29, 2007 at 6:25 pm by Mara Shalhoup in NewsAt 12:30 a.m. on May 22, Terry Williams was shot once in the head, practically in front of his Seminole Avenue apartment, as he was walking home from the Euclid Avenue Yacht Club. The gunman had demanded cash, according to an Atlanta Police report, and Williams — a beloved resident of Little Five and a regular (and former bartender) at the EAYC — hardly had a chance to react before he was downed by a bullet.
Shortly before 6 p.m. on May 29, CL got an email from Williams’ friend and neighbor, Kevin Green, stating, “Terry died a few minutes ago.”
“Everybody’s in a state of shock,” Green had said a few hours before Terry’s death. “He is one of the smartest, funniest, kindest people I’ve ever met. When you spend time with him, a lot of the time you wake up the next morning with a sore stomach from laughing so hard.
“People say this all the time when this happens to someone, but it’s the truth.”
The word Green and others have invoked when describing the incident is “senseless.”
As of the afternoon of May 29, Atlanta Police did not yet have a suspect.
“I think the neighborhood is shocked and angry that something like this could happen,” says Green, who describes Williams as a sculptor, screenwriter and master storyteller. “I was with him on Sunday, [May 20], and he was saying how much he loved living in the neighborhood.”
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