A record number of Bibb County residents were killed in 2020. Here are the victims:

Bibb County has broken the modern-day record for homicides: more than 45 people have violently lost their lives at the hands of others since the beginning of the year.

The previous modern-day record for homicides in Macon, set in 1992, is 43.

So far this year, 50 people have been victims of homicide, including a vehicular homicide that killed a 14-year-old and the death of a pregnant woman whose unborn child also died in the shooting.

Editor’s note: Keith Young was shot and killed by police after he reportedly tied up his wife, kidnapped three children and rammed several police vehicles. Although Young’s death was an officer involved shooting, Bibb County Coroner Leon Jones includes it in his running list of 2020 homicides.

Here is a list of people killed in Macon this year:

Michael Alvin Lewis

The death of Michael Lewis, 37, marked the first homicide in Macon for 2020. He was found in the front lawn of 771 Oak Hill Court with multiple gunshot wounds and died on the scene on Jan. 20. Lewis, a father of three, was a cook and an Air Force veteran and was recently discharged from the hospital after he was diagnosed with lupus.

Norbert Volmar Jr.

Norbert Volmar Jr., 36, was shot dead Jan. 21 at a boarding house at 2831 Roy Street. Three other people were in the house when the shooting occurred, but they were not injured.

A woman in the house found Volmar in the living room shot in the head when she went to answer a knock on the door. He had been watching TV.

Jahfari Shakwun Bullard

Bibb County deputies found Jahfari Bullard, 19, lying in the road at the intersection of Ferguson and Lamar streets with a gunshot wound to the stomach. He died from his injury Jan. 22.

Bullard’s friend, Germori Amel Mallory, 21, turned himself in and was charged with involuntary manslaughter in connection with Bullard’s death. Mallory was reportedly playing with a gun when it accidentally went off and the bullet hit Bullard.

Johntavies Dangelo Coleman

Johntavies Coleman, 30, was shot in the torso when he answered a knock at the door Jan. 30 at 515 Moreland Ave. He was pronounced dead at the scene.

Family members of Coleman found him lying in the doorway of the single-story home, and he was reportedly shot through the screen door, according to a neighbor.

Deion Farley

Deion Farley, 25, was found shot dead outside of an alleged “shot house” at 948 Patterson Street on Feb. 1. A “shot house” is a house where alcohol is sold illegally by the drink.

Farley had been shot once in the head, and he was found partially in the driveway to the house and in the roadway around 4 a.m.

Michael Whitaker Jr.

Michael Whitaker Jr., 45, was shot Feb. 10 at a body shop at 572 Concord St. He died after being taken to a city hospital.

The body shop is roughly five blocks from Bibb County Jail.

Ashley Wease

Ashley Wease, 37, of Eatonton was shot multiple times at the EconoLodge Inn & Suites in Macon, and she was pronounced dead in the back of an ambulance on the scene on Feb. 15.

Macon-Bibb County Sheriff deputies found Wease unresponsive at the Macon motel on Chamber Road.

Shakayla Hill

Shakayla Hill, 14, was pronounced dead at the scene of a car wreck Feb. 17. Deputies tried to stop a Nissan Sentra that was reported stolen.

The car sped off, and the 15-year-old driver of the car lost control, hitting a pole and multiple trees. All passengers of the car were ejected from the car, and the driver and another 15-year-old female passenger were taken to The Medical Center, Navicent Health for treatment.

Imir Kent

Imir Kent, a 5-month-old baby boy, died from burns on March 10 from a space heater at his home on Bishop Road.

The boys mother and her boyfriend, Jalicia Aquanetta Kent, 28, and Quantious Trenard Hodges, 30, were charged with murder and arrested.

La’Terry Kendrick

La’Terry Kendrick, 24, was shot at Houston and Heard Avenue in Macon on March 25.

Kendrick was allegedly shot in a convenience store parking lot, and other people in the parking lot transported him to The Medical Center, Navicent Health where he later died.

Janet Samuels, James Samuels and Kotwang Childs

Janet Samuels, James Samuels and Kotwang Childs were shot multiple times on March 31 in their family home at 571 Moreland Ave.

Caesar Zamien Lamar Crockett Jr., 29, was reportedly in an argument with Jamila French, 30, when he allegedly shot French’s mother, step-father and sister. He reportedly kidnapped their son, King, but he was recovered in Florida. Crockett was taken into custody.

Joe Woolfolk

Joseph “Joe” Lewis Woolfolk III was shot multiple times April 9 on the 1600 block of Winston Drive.

Woolfolk played football and basketball for two years at Windsor Academy. He was also enrolled on and off at Rutland High School, but he didn’t play on any sports teams this year.

Justin Coby Mahone

Justin Mahone, 26, was shot and killed shortly after 6:30 p.m. on April 14 in the 200 block of Riley Avenue.

He was a graduate of Central High School where he played basketball, and he also attended Georgia Southwestern State University for two years. He had a 6-year-old daughter who was with her mother at the time Mahone was killed.

Doug Boyd

Doug Boyd, 27, of Macon, was shot in the chest during a fist fight inside a home at 4211 Napier Ave. on April 19, according to police. He died five hours later at The Medical Center, Navicent Health.

Three people were arrested in connection with the killing: Jahrius Isaiah Justus Whitehead, 27, Jimon Tracey Watkins, 22, and ShaMarques Trevon Watkins, 25.

Melanie Powers and her unborn child

Melanie Powers, 36, was found dead from a gunshot wound to the head on April 26 on the 1000 block of Radio Drive. Powers was pregnant at the time she was killed.

Powers’ step-daughter, Passion Latrice Watkins, 19, was arrested and charged with malice murder, aggravated assault, cruelty to children and feticide for the death of Powers’ unborn child.

Randall Head

Randall Head, 51, was found stabbed in the neck on April 30 by construction workers behind the shopping center containing Ollie’s Bargain Outlet on Mercer University Drive.

Head was last seen leaving his home on April 25 and was reported missing on April 27.

Ashley Heberling

Ashley Heberling, 29, was found shot outside of her Retreat at Ragan apartment, 2800 Masseyville Road, around 10 a.m. May 3.

She was taken to a hospital where she later died from her injuries.

Octavius Savon Nixon

Octavius Savon Nixon, 20, was found shot multiple times and unresponsive by Bibb sheriff’s deputies outside Building O of Pendleton Homes off Houston Avenue on May 9.

Nixon worked at McDonald’s, graduated from Rutland High School and attended college in Albany.

Douglas Wilmale Stevenson

Douglas Wilmale Stevenson, 22, was found unresponsive in his vehicle with multiple gunshot wounds at River Walk Apartments on Riverside Drive on May 12.

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

Victim of murder, rape and necrophilia

Kenny Obyran Whitehead, 55, was found by Bibb County Sheriff’s deputies on May 17 having sexual intercourse with a woman in front of the Daybreak Resource Center in Macon, according to a Telegraph article. Emergency services determined that the woman was dead.

Whitehead was initially charged with necrophilia and later charged with murder and rape.

Damond Cain Stevens

Damond Cain Stevens, 38, was pronounced dead May 22 in the Emergency Room of the Medical Center, Navicent Health after he was found shot multiple times outside of Bowden Homes at Cynthia and Houston avenues by Bibb County deputies.

Stacey Van Battle and Derrick Howard

Stacey Van Battle, 60, and Derrick Howard, 49, were found shot at 3580 Fair St. in Macon on May 29.

Battle was shot at least twice and was pronounced dead at the scene, and Howard was transported to the Medical Center, Navicent Health where he later died from multiple gunshot wounds.

Dominique Phillips

Dominique Phillips, 29, was found shot in the face June 8 in the backyard of a home at the intersection of Eastview Avenue and Hawkinsville Avenue in the Fort Hill neighborhood.

Bibb County Sheriff’s Office received two calls for shots fired in the area that night. When they responded to the 1 a.m. call, they didn’t find anyone on the scene, but when they responded to the 5 a.m. call, they found Phillips dead with a gunshot wound.

Devontae Tennyson

Devontae Tennyson, 25, of Macon, was fatally shot June 17 in the parking lot of the Midtown Daiquiri Bar & Grill during an argument with the establishment’s private security guards.

Tennyson was pronounced dead at the Medical Center, Navicent Health shortly after midnight on June 18.

Wesley Faulks

Wesley Faulks, 30, was reportedly shot accidentally by a friend at Hidden Lake Apartments on July 1.

Witnesses told Bibb Sheriff’s deputies that Faulks and Tevin Javon Pleas were showing each other their new firearms when Pleas’ weapon fired.

Notorious Williams and Davius Johnson

Notorious Williams, 31, and Davius Johnson, 30, were in a shootout July 5 with Anthony Green, 57, when Williams and Johnson were struck by gunfire.

Williams was pronounced dead at the scene and Johnson succumbed to his injuries later at the Medical Center, Navicent Health.

Devaun Patton

A fight that escalated into a shooting in the parking lot of the Family Dollar at 2584 Rocky Creek Road resulted in the death of Devaun Patton, 16, on July 17, according to police.

The shooting is being investigated as a homicide.

Nadia Symone Andrews

Nadia Symone Andrews, 28, was transported to the hospital July 29 after she was injured during a shooting in the parking lot of the M&M Grocery store at 2760 Montpelier Ave.

She was pronounced dead at 1:43 a.m. She was the mother of a 4 year old and a 3 year old.

Kenneth Bernard Campbell

Kenneth Bernard Campbell, 29, was shot while driving on Montpelier Avenue on July 29.

He was reportedly returning to the area of fight when he was fired upon near a Little Caesars and Chevron gas station.

Jarvis Knight

Jarvis Knight, 28, was shot in the head July 31 during a party at 4369 Mikado Ave.

He was pronounced dead at The Medical Center, Navicent Health at 3:10 p.m. on Aug. 1.

Clinton Nettles

Clinton Nettles, 39, was ejected from the rear seat of a Ford truck in a crash that happened Aug. 9. Larry Kevin Moore, of Monroe County, was driving the truck when it reportedly left the roadway and went down an embankment around 11:58 p.m.

The truck hit the side of a stationary train and rolled before coming to a stop. Moore has been charged with felony vehicular homicide and is free on bond pending trial.

Valerie Patterson

Valerie Patterson, 51, was found dead along the 4400 block of Interstate Drive on Aug. 27. At the time, it was believed to be a hit-and-run

Antonio Jaron Jones, 24, turned himself in as the person who was driving the vehicle that struck Patterson and was charged with homicide by vehicle.

Joshua Horn Sr.

Joshua Horn Sr., 26, was reportedly shot in the chest at Hunters Run Apartment Homes on Thomaston Road in Macon on Oct. 12.

He was pronounced dead at the scene, and Earlondez Donta Bond was taken into custody. Bond was later charged with murder.

Milton Dwayne Sanford

Milton Dwayne Sanford, 28, was reportedly found with a single gunshot wound in a vehicle parked on Thomas Place in west Macon on Nov. 2.

He was pronounced dead at the scene, and his death marked the 40th homicide of the year.

Aleric Cornelius, Alice Randle and Chester Novak

When Bibb County Sheriff deputies arrived at the boarding house at 925 McCall Road on Nov. 7, they found Aleric Cornelius, 51, and Alice Randle, 65, dead and Colleen Koener, 46, seriously injured. Investigators found Chester Novak, the owner of the boarding house, dead behind a neigbor’s house covered with brush.

The victims have not been identified because officials are working to notify their next of kin.

Ronald Green Jr. was taken into custody and charged with three count of murder, criminal attempt to commit a felony, and an unrelated charge of a bond surrender.

Diamond Purvis

Diamond Purvis, 19, was found dead with her boyfriend Sidney Bishop, 31, at the southeastern edge of east Macon’s King’s Park subdivision Nov. 13.

At the time of the incident, the sheriff’s release stated that it appeared that Bishop shot Purvis before shooting himself.

Malik Tajhae Young

Malik Tajhae Young, 24, of Macon, was found with multiple gunshot wounds just after 10 p.m. Nov. 17. He was pronounced dead on the scene.

Young was reportedly exiting a vehicle in the parking lot of Pine Ridge Apartments at 1958 Clinton Road when an unknown subject began shooting.

Romero Gonzalez

Romero Gonzalez, 49, was found with a gunshot wound to the abdomen laying outside of his vehicle at Riverbend Apartments, at 3645 Mercer University Drive, on Nov. 22. He was pronounced dead later that night at Navicent Health.

Gonzalez was reportedly in an altercantion with 37-year-old Guadalupe Hernandez Perez when Perez allegedly shot Gonzalez. Perez was arrested by Bibb County Sheriff’s Office and charged with murder.

Jhacaya Mann

Jhacaya Mann, 22, was fatally shot early in the morning on Nov. 27 when someone started shooting as they drove by the crowd outside The Thirsty Turtle, a bar in downtown Macon.

Mann was transported to Navicent Health along with five other people who were shot and two people who were stabbed during the altercation. She was pronounced dead later that morning.

Raiyawna Nibrea Moser-Powell

Raiyawna Nibrea Moser-Powell, 24, of Byron, was pronounced dead from a gunshot wound at Navicent Health on Nov. 28.

Moser-Powell, along with another gunshot victim, were driven to the hospital in a private vehicle. The second victim was being treated at the hospital and was in stable condition.

Courvoisie Jamal Reid

Courvoisie Jamal Reid, 31, of Macon, was reportedly shot by Jeremy Travontia Brown, 29, on Dec. 6 at a house on Shearwater Drive during an altercation that involved a fight with Reid’s girlfriend.

Brown, of Macon, turned himself in early the following morning.

Jamerian Lawrence

Jamerian Lawrence, 15, was shot in the head Dec. 6 in a drive-by shooting in east Macon, and he was pronounced dead Dec. 10 after being in intensive care at a city hospital for four days.

Lawrence was shot at Center Street’s intersection with Woolfolk Street. His death sadly marked the 50th homicide in Macon-Bibb County in 2020.

This story was originally published August 5, 2020 at 9:00 AM.