Bibb’s second homicide victim was known as ‘Big Man’ when arrested at a gang hangout

A 36-year-old man was shot dead Tuesday night at a boarding house on Roy Street.

The victim was identified as Norbert Volmar Jr., according to Bibb County Coroner Leon Jones.

Volmar served less than two years of a 15-year prison sentenced for possession with intent to distribute cocaine, according to the Georgia Department of Corrections website.

Three other people were inside the house at 2831 Roy Street during the 10 p.m. incident. They were not hurt.

A woman answering a knock at the door Wednesday morning said she found Volmar shot in the head in the living room where he’d been watching TV. She declined to give her name.

“We just called him Jr.,” she said. “...We didn’t hear nothing but the shooting.”

The woman, who had been in her bedroom watching TV, said she didn’t see anything and did not know how the shooting had happened.

She said she didn’t know much about Volmar, except that he was already living at the house when she moved in two years ago.

Another resident of the boarding house told sheriff’s deputies that he also heard multiple shots fired outside, according to a Bibb County sheriff’s incident report.

No shell casings were found inside the residence, but were located outside in the road, the report said.

Melvin Edwards, who grew up down the street from the shooting, stopped by the house Wednesday morning.

“It got me,” Edwards said of learning that it was Volmar who’d been killed. “I was hoping it was not him.”

Volmar used to go up the street to Cora Harris’ house for a meal from time to time and that’s where Edwards said he met him.

Harris, who died late last year, used to feed people at her home, Edwards said. Her mother and grandmother used to to that also, he said.

Volmar was arrested at another Roy Street address in September 2011 when the then-Macon Police Department’s Narcotic Unit targeted known gang hangouts, according to Telegraph archives. The Macon Police Department later consolidated with the Bibb County Sheriff’s Office.

Volmar was known as “Big Man” then.

No other information was released by the sheriff’s office about the killing.

The shooting is the second homicide in Macon-Bibb this year and within days of the first.

About 9:30 p.m. Monday, an Oak Hill resident heard shots fired outside his home and found 37-year-old Michael Alvin Lewis lying in the front yard. Lewis had been shot several times.

Anyone with information about the shootings is urged to contact the Bibb County Sheriff’s Office at 478-751-7500, or Macon Regional Crimestoppers at 1-877-68CRIME.

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This story was originally published January 22, 2020 at 7:04 AM.