Crimestoppers tip leads to arrest of Macon teen wanted on murder charges
A Macon teenager on the run following a September homicide was arrested Thursday morning around the corner from Bibb County’s latest killing.
DeQuavious Jamal Howard, 18, is accused of fatally shooting Michael Antwan Chapman who was found with multiple gunshot wounds on Burke Street on Sept. 16.
Investigators put out a lookout for Howard, shortly after Chapman became the county’s 31st homicide victim of 2018.
A Crimestoppers tip led to Howard’s arrest at a home on Joseph Waller Drive in east Macon, according to a news release from the Bibb County Sheriff’s Offfice.
Howard, whose last known address is on Myrtle Court in south Macon, is charged with murder and armed robbery.
The U.S. Marshals Southeast Regional Fugitive Task Force worked with the sheriff’s Gang Unit to arrest Howard just after 11:30 a.m. Thursday.
Howard’s girlfriend, Makayla Chanell Bowden, 18, and her mother, Crystal Reese, 39, also were at the east Macon house and arrested for allegedly hindering his apprehension.
Bowden also was charged with possession of schedule 2 drugs and possession of a firearm during commission of a felony.
All three appeared before magistrate judge Barbara Harris at the jail Friday afternoon.
Harris did not set a bond for Howard whose case is bound over to Superior Court.
He said something to Bowden on the way out of the courtroom that drew a smirk from her as she cut her eyes toward him as he walked out in his orange jumpsuit and sandals.
Harris set a bond of $5,000 for Reese and instructed her not to have any contact with Howard.
“I don’t even know him,” she said, which provoked a scolding from the judge.
“Just be quiet, ma’am,” Harris told her.
Bowden’s bond was set at $10,375, according to jail records.
The house on Joseph Waller where the three were living is around the corner from where 15-year-old Kendrick Davis was gunned down late Tuesday night on Warpath Road near Manson Road.
According to investigators, Reese’s teen son was a close friend of Davis who was found wounded and lying in street in the 34th homicide of the year.
That investigation continues after two teens were arrested and charged with murder Wednesday.
Nearly a year ago, Howard also was arrested in a midday shooting at a Houston Avenue convenience store.
He’s being held without bond at the Bibb County jail.
This story was originally published November 2, 2018 at 5:20 AM.