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Family raising money to pay for medical bills of 7-year-old boy shot in Macon

A screeshot from a GoFundMe page created to help pay for 7-year-old Neco Crumsey’s medical bills. Crumsey was injured when someone opened fire outside of a Macon apartment building.
A screeshot from a GoFundMe page created to help pay for 7-year-old Neco Crumsey’s medical bills. Crumsey was injured when someone opened fire outside of a Macon apartment building. GoFundMe

A 7-year-old Macon boy remains in critical condition at an Atlanta-area hospital and his family is raising money to pay for his care.

Neco Crumsey was watching TV with relatives in a Green Meadows Apartments living room when someone fired multiple shots at the apartment, hitting him in the neck. He was transported to a Macon hospital, stabilized and flown to an Atlanta hospital.

Family member Demetrice Flowers created a GoFundMe page to help pay for expenses related to his surgery. She wrote that Neco needed surgery to repair a broken bone and a torn artery.

“We’re asking that everyone with a heart to pray for him. You don’t have to donate money, a prayer to our lord and savior Jesus Christ will help also,” she wrote.

The Bibb County Sheriff’s Office is investigating the incident, and reported that no was else was injured. Investigators have not publicly identified a suspect.

This incident is still under investigation, anyone with about this incident is urged to contact the Bibb Sheriff’s Office at 478-751 -7500 or Macon Regional Crime Stoppers at 1-877-68CRIME.

Caleb Slinkard
The Telegraph
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.
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