Suspect in latest Macon killing was convicted of fatally shooting store clerk in 1981
A Macon man charged with murder after a weekend shootout left two men dead and a 7-year-old girl wounded was convicted of killing a worker at a convenience store nearly 40 years ago.
Anthony Cyril Green, 57, was jailed early Sunday, accused of shooting and killing one of the men slain at an Independence Day party on Azalea Drive off Ayers Road on Macon’s northwest side, authorities said.
More arrests were expected in the 1 a.m. shooting, which claimed the lives of Notorious Montreal Williams, 31, who Green is accused of shooting, and 30-year-old Davius Dewayne Johnson.
Green and another man pleaded guilty to murder and theft charges in the April 27, 1981, shooting death of a night-shift worker at a Majik Market on Second Street. Green was sentenced to life in prison and released in 2005.
He was sent to prison again in 2015 after a Bibb County jury found him guilty of aggravated assault and possession of a firearm by a convicted felon for shooting and wounding a 15-year-old girl in November 2012.
Green was said to have fired a shot through an apartment door on Patton Avenue near Henderson Stadium after an argument over a card game.
His conviction was overturned and he was granted a new trial after an appeals court ruled that prosecutors should not have mentioned Green’s past murder conviction to jurors.
Instead of a new trial, Green pleaded guilty to aggravated assault and was sentenced to time served. He was released from prison in January.
The 1981 slaying at the Majik Market, which sat at the intersection of Second and Ell streets south of downtown, remained a mystery for nearly a year and a half.
It was then, in fall 1982, that a tip from a convicted rapist, a teen whose life sentence was reduced in exchange for information about the deadly holdup, helped detectives crack the case.
The victim, 20-year-old James “Squint” Glidewell, was found by a customer about 5 a.m., an hour and a half or so after Glidewell was thought to have been fatally shot.
Investigators at the time guessed that Glidewell had been cleaning the 24-hour store or stocking shelves when his killer or killers walked in, shot him in the chest and stole $196.
Green, who was 19, and his accomplice, Robert Mattox, also 19, confessed to their roles in the stickup, but upon arrest in October 1982 neither admitted shooting Glidewell.
But a month later, according a transcript of the November 1982 hearing where Green pleaded guilty, Green admitted being the shooter. Green said that after robbing Glidewell, Glidewell told him, “You have ... the money, just don’t hurt me.”
Green said Glidewell “rushed at me, you know, that’s when I, you know, I shot three times but I don’t know that I hit him. ... He ran back in the back of the store, you know, and I heard somebody. ... He screamed or something. And so me and [my accomplice], we just ran and left.”
Telegraph archives contributed to this report.
This story was originally published July 6, 2020 at 2:27 PM.