A Georgia man was robbed and fatally shot in the head after being persuaded to meet his killer on a dating app.

Mark Antonio White, 23, was found guilty of a felony. murderaggravated attackArmed robbery and possession of a firearm in the 2021 robbery of the victim, according to the Gwinnett County District Attorney’s Office.

White was convicted and sentenced to life in prison plus five years without the possibility of parole for using the online dating app as a cover to rob and kill 39-year-old Garcia Danielle Gaddis.

Gaddis had gone out for a “date” on the evening of October 21, 2021, but was never seen alive again.

Three days later, police were alerted to a suspicious Dodge Ram 1500 truck parked in the Lawrenceville neighborhood. Inside the car, police found Gaddis’ body, “with a single gunshot wound to the head,” and valuables such as his cell phone, wallet and car keys were also reported missing.

On the night he was last seen, investigators discovered that Gaddis had contacted a man they eventually identified as White. dating app.

After exchanging several messages, the two planned to meet near the Little Suwanee Pointe neighborhood. But when he arrived at the scene, White texted Gaddis to pick him up poolside.

Prosecutors said security cameras showed Gaddis driving his truck through the neighborhood shortly after 11 p.m. and picking up a black man with shoulder-length dreadlocks from the pool clubhouse parking lot.

Minutes later, the truck was seen heading toward the entrance of the Lawrenceville neighborhood, and the same dreadlocked man was seen walking through the entrance toward the pool clubhouse where Gaddis had collected him.

When authorities searched Gaddis’ Dodge truck, shell casings were found in the cabin that matched casings fired from a gun in an early July 2021 incident.

In July, White was accused of firing a series of bullets at his ex-girlfriend and her mother.

However, the mother had collected the bullet casings from the incident and held them until she was contacted by police who began investigating Gaddis’ murder.

Eventually, White was captured under surveillance during an eviction from a townhouse near the pool a few weeks later, dressed similarly to the man captured the night Gaddis was killed.

He was arrested in June 2022.