Atlanta police renew calls for help in solving decade-old murder case

ATLANTA, Ga. (Atlanta News First) - Ten years to the day after the brutal murder of an East Atlanta man, Atlanta police released an age-progressed sketch of what the shooter might look like today.

On May 25, 2013, Patrick Cotrona was robbed and fatally shot on his way to an East Atlanta Village bar.

Two other robberies had already taken place hours earlier less than two miles away on Kirkwood Avenue. A few weeks later, police released two sketches of the suspected shooter, each drawn with the help of two of the victims.

News of Cotrona’s death shook the East Atlanta community. Residents living along May Avenue where the shooting took place held a vigil and even established a community patrol.

“They left my brother on the side of the street bleeding like an animal. He bled out there,” Cotrona’s older sister Kate Krumm told our news team in a 2013 interview. “It’s hard to imagine someone so amazingly kind and wonderful could be ripped from our lives like this.”

During a news conference Thursday morning, the original lead detective in the case held a news conference hoping the new sketch might generate new leads in the unsolved murder.

Anyone with information is being asked to call Crime Stoppers Atlanta tip line at 404-577-TIPS (8477), or online here. A $25,000 reward is being offered for any information leading to the arrest and indictment of a suspect.

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