UPDATE: Sheriff’s office makes arrest in Macon triple homicide
The Bibb County Sheriff’s Office has made an arrest in connection with a triple homicide at a Macon boarding house Saturday night, where a fourth person was seriously injured.
Sheriff’s deputies responded to a 911 call at around 8 p.m. at 925 McCall Road and found a man and woman dead inside of the house. Another woman was also found injured in the house and was transported to a local hospital in critical condition.
Investigators said the killer broke into the back door of the boarding house and bludgeoned the residents with a “sharp object.” The sheriff’s office has not released the names or ages of three victims, as family members still need to be notified.
“The names of the deceased cannot be released at this time, until the next of kin has been notified,” read a Bibb County Sheriff’s Office release. “The name of the injured female also will not be released at this time.”
Investigators found the the body of the home’s owner, Chester John Novak, 73, at around 2 a.m. Sunday morning in a wooded area behind a neighboring home. Novak’s body was covered with brush.
Also early Sunday morning, investigators and members of the U.S. Marshal’s Southeast Fugitive Task Force found Ronald Green Jr., 51, in a hotel on Arkwright road. Green was arrested without incident and charged with three counts of murder, criminal attempt to commit a felony and an unrelated charge of a bond surrender. According to an earlier sheriff’s office press release, Green was a previous tenant of the boarding house. He’s currently being held at the Bibb County jail without bond.
The killings mark Macon’s 41st, 42nd and 43rd homicides of the year, according to records from County Coroner Leon Jones. That ties 2020 for the deadliest year in modern Macon history. Forty-three homicides were also recorded in 1992.
This incident is still under investigation 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 November 8, 2020 at 10:40 AM.
