8-year-old girl shot at Macon home on Friday dies in Atlanta hospital

An 8-year-old girl shot in Macon on Friday afternoon died Sunday in an Atlanta children’s hospital, officials said, and Bibb County Sheriff’s investigators were still working to piece together what happened.

Miracle Brantley was shot at a house in the 2300 block of Ballard Drive just before 4 p.m Friday., according to a release from the sheriff’s office. The child was driven to a local hospital for treatment and later taken to Atlanta.

She was pronounced dead Sunday morning at Scottish Rite Hospital.

Details of the shooting have not been publicly divulged.

Ballard Drive parallels Interstate 75 just east of the freeway between Anthony Road and Ell Street.

Anyone with any information about this incident can contact the Bibb Sheriff’s Office at 478-751-7500 or call Macon Regional Crime Stoppers at 1-877-68CRIME.

This story was originally published January 29, 2021 at 5:22 PM.

Caleb Slinkard

The Telegraph

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Caleb Slinkard is the Georgia Editor for McClatchy, running the Macon Telegraph and Columbus Ledger-Enquirer newsrooms. Previously, he led newsrooms for the El Dorado (Ark.) News-Times, the Norman (Okla.) Transcript and the Greenville (Texas) Herald-Banner. He’s a graduate of Texas A&M University-Commerce and has taught journalism classes and practicums at the University of Oklahoma and Mercer University.