Crime

Suspects identified after pizza delivery woman shot in the head; victim remains critical

Jacob Elijah Miller
Jacob Elijah Miller

A 26-year-old woman was arrested in connection with the Monday night shooting of a Papa John’s Pizza delivery driver and a 19-year-old man charged with attempted murder is still at-large.

Bibb County sheriff’s investigators are looking for Jacob Elijah Miller, the suspected gunman in the wounding of 21-year-old Brooklyn Rouse on Monday. Rouse was shot in the head and cheek while delivering two pizzas to an address on Vivian Drive in Bloomfield.

Warrants for Miller’s arrest were for criminal attempt to commit murder, armed robbery and possession of a firearm by a convicted felon, according to a news release from the sheriff’s office.

Alisha Genva Wilson, 26, of Wallace Drive, was booked in the jail Tuesday on charges of armed robbery, possession of a weapon and criminal attempt to commit a felony, Cpl. Linda Howard said. Howard confirmed Wilson’s arrest is connected to Rouse’s shooting, but details of the arrest warrant have yet to be made public.

A Bibb County magistrate judge denied bond for Wilson on Wednesday, the release said.

Deputies chased a man thought to be Miller through the woods near Central Georgia Technical College on Wednesday afternoon. After pulling the man from under a house in Bloomfield, it was realized that the man was not Miller. The school was on lockdown for about 90 minutes.

Miller has a tattoo of an upside-down cross in the middle of his forehead and tattoos of teardrops under each eye.

According to Bibb County Superior Court records, Miller was charged with criminal street gang activity and riot in a penal institution in connection with a disturbance Feb. 26, 2015 at the Macon Regional Youth Detention Center where he was incarcerated.

Miller, who was identified as being in a position of leadership in the Bloods street gang, “attempted to get other youth to rise up and start a riot,” according to a May 2015 indictment.

Just five days before Rouse was shot, her 23-year-old co-worker, Duncan Siror, was shot in the shoulder while delivering a pizza to an address just a mile and a half north of where she was headed.

Whether the shootings are related remained unclear late Wednesday.

Rouse’s aunt, Latavia Coleman, set up an online fund Wednesday morning for people to donate money to help the family with medical expenses. By Wednesday evening, the account exceeded its goal of raising $5,000 and aimed for $7,500.

Anyone with information on the whereabouts of Jacob Elijah Miller or this incident is urged to contact the Bibb Sheriff’s Office at 478-751-7500 and ask to leave a message for the on-call gang investigator or Macon Regional Crime Stoppers at 1-877-68CRIME.

Writer Stanley Dunlap contributed to this report.

Liz Fabian: 478-744-4303, @liz_lines

Laura Corley: 478-744-4334, @Lauraecor

This story was originally published December 28, 2016 at 1:22 PM with the headline "Suspects identified after pizza delivery woman shot in the head; victim remains critical."

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