Jazz legend Nat King Cole’s great-nephew, Tracy Cole, 31, stabbed to death in Atlanta: 'Everybody loved him'
Tracy Cole, the great-nephew of legendary singer Nat King Cole, was killed in an Atlanta stabbing last week. No suspects have been arrested.
A Georgia man who was killed this week while on an Atlanta street early Thursday morning has been identified as the great-nephew of legendary jazz singer and pianist Nat King Cole.
Tracy Cole, 31, was stabbed multiple times near the intersection of Centennial Olympic Park NE and Ivan Allen Jr. Boulevard NW around 2 a.m. Thursday, according to FOX 5 Atlanta. He was pronounced dead at a hospital.
No arrests have been made and investigators don’t have a motive.
[He was] always laughing, always smiling with his corny jokes," Cole’s friend Octavia Oliver said of him. "Everybody loved him."

Tracy was a real cool dude. Damn!
Used to sip Merlot with he and his granddad Freddy when they came to town.
see man....