Macon’s 4th homicide victim of 2020 was shot after knock on the door, neighbor says
Macon’s fourth homicide victim of 2020 was shot when he answered a knock at the door Thursday night, a neighbor says.
Johntavies Dangelo Coleman, 30, of Macon, was pronounced dead at the residence at 515 Moreland Ave. in the south end of the city, Bibb County Coroner Leon Jones said.
Coleman was found by family members lying in the doorway of the single-story home, Bibb County sheriff’s officials said. He’d been shot in the torso.
The 911 call came in just after 9 p.m.
The shooter had already fled when deputies arrived. No suspect information was available.
A neighbor said one of the residents told him that Coleman was shot when he answered a knock at the door.
“He was shot through the screen door,” the neighbor said he was told. “If the screen door hadn’t been locked, he (the shooter) might have come inside and shot them all. Who knows?”
The neighbor, who was unsettled by the shooting, said that Coleman did not live at the house but may be related to those that do.
He said he didn’t hear anything, but looked outside and saw emergency vehicles and people standing in the yard after another neighbor called him.
Authorities confirmed Coleman was shot when he opened the door.
The killing marks the fourth homicide for Macon-Bibb in the first month of 2020. The other homicide victims, all from Macon, also died from gunshot wounds.
On Jan. 21, 37-year-old Michael Alvin Lewis was found shot to death in a yard along Forest Hill Road. He’d been shot in the back and chest about 9:30 p.m.
On Jan. 22, Norbert Volmar Jr., 36, was found shot dead at a boarding house about 10 p.m. on Roy Street by another resident. He was shot in the head.
On Jan. 23, 19-year-ol Jahfari Shakwun Bullard was found lying in the road near the intersection of Ferguson and Lamar streets by deputies who responded to a report of a shooting just before 9:30 p.m. He died at 1:25 a.m. Jan. 24 at the Medical Center, Navicent Health.
Germori Amel Mallory, 21, of Macon, has been charged with involuntary manslaughter in connection with Bullard’s death.
“It was reported that on the night of this incident, Mallory was playing with a gun and it discharged striking Bullard in the stomach,” Bibb County sheriff’s officials said in news release.
Thursday night’s shooting remains under investigation. No other information was released.
Anyone with information about the shootings is urged to contact the Bibb Sheriff’s Office at 478-751 -7500, or Macon Regional Crimestoppers at 1-877-68CRIME.
This story was originally published January 31, 2020 at 7:00 AM.