Victim in Macon homicide shot while driving and later died in hospital, cops say

New details have been released in the shooting death of a Macon man who was Bibb County’s second homicide on Wednesday.

Kenneth Bernard Campbell, 29, was shot while driving on Montpelier Avenue on Wednesday evening and died later at an area hospital.

At 5:46 p.m. Wednesday, Campbell was returning to the area of a fight among several people when he was fired upon near a Little Caesars and Chevron gas station, according to the Bibb Sheriff’s Office.

Here’s what happened, according to a sheriff’s office news release:

Campbell lost control of the vehicle after he was shot, driving over a water main next to Little Caesars at 1477 Pio Nono Ave. before the vehicle came to a stop. The shopping center where the restaurant sits is at the corner of Montpelier and Pio Nono avenues.

Arriving sheriff’s deputies pulled an unresponsive Campbell out of the vehicle and performed CPR until paramedics arrived. He was taken to hospital where he died later that night.

In March, Campbell was on a list of “Most Wanted” criminals but had been arrested on those charges and was free on bond at the time of the killing.

Campbell’s death was the second homicide of the day.

Early Wednesday morning, 28-year-old Nadia Symone Andrews was shot while sitting in a car with her boyfriend in the parking lot of the M&M Grocery store at 2760 Montpelier Ave. Andrews, the mother of two young children, was pronounced dead at a hospital around 1:43 a.m.

Anyone with information about the incidents is is urged to contact the Bibb County Sheriff’s Office at 478-751-7500, or Macon Regional CrimeStoppers at 1-877-68CRIME.

This story was originally published July 30, 2020 at 7:45 AM.