Man affiliated with Crips gang charged in slaying outside Macon pizza shop, cops say
A west Macon man was jailed Tuesday and charged with murder in connection with the death of man who was shot while driving near a Unionville pizza shop late last month.
Bibb County sheriff’s deputies and deputy U.S. Marshals surrounded a house in the 1800 block of Swan Drive shortly after 9 a.m. after learning that a suspect in the slaying was inside.
Tre’varus De’monte “Trey G” Kendrick, 26, was then arrested without incident, sheriff’s officials said in a statement.
Kendrick, of a Thomaston Road address, is affiliated with the Crips street gang, said Deputy U.S. Marshal John Edgar of the Southeast Regional Fugitive Task Force.
The public-housing neighborhood where Kendrick was caught, Anthony Homes, lies just south of Anthony Road and Henderson Stadium in a section known as Bird City. The area is less than a mile and a half from where the shooting happened.
Kendrick was wanted in the shooting death of Kenneth Bernard Campbell, 29, who was shot while at the wheel of car July 29 after apparently returning to the scene of an argument near the intersection of Pio Nono and Montpelier avenues.
The car he was in struck a water main outside a small shopping center that includes a Little Caesars pizza shop.
Kendrick was accused of shooting two people and pointing a pistol at another in August 2011. He was also accused of being in a gang in the same case. He later pleaded guilty to one count of aggravated assault and was sentenced to five years on probation as a first offender.
But in February 2015 he was arrested on a new aggravated assault charge and found guilty of violating his first-offender probation and sent to prison until May 2019.
This story was originally published August 11, 2020 at 1:12 PM.