Crime

22-year-old was found fatally shot in the parking lot of a Macon apartment complex

A 22-year-old man was fatally shot Tuesday night in the parking lot of a Macon apartment complex.

Bibb County Sheriff deputies responded to a shooting at River Walk Apartments, at 5578 Riverside Drive, around 9:30 p.m. and found Douglas Wilmale Stevenson unresponsive in his vehicle with multiple gunshot wounds, according to a news release from the Bibb County Sheriff’s Office.

Stevenson was pronounced dead on the scene.

A large crowd was reportedly near the 100 building when an altercation occurred and shots were fired. No one else was injured, according to the release.

No information has been release about a suspect, and the homicide is still under investigation.

As of Tuesday night, 22 people have been killed at the hands of others, including a vehicular homicide that killed a 14-year-old and the fatal shooting of a pregnant woman whose unborn child also died, according to a Telegraph article.

Anyone with information 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.

This story was originally published May 13, 2020 at 7:14 AM.

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