18-year-old suspect in Macon apartment slaying jailed after talking to cops on phone
An 18-year-old Macon man has been arrested in connection with the shooting death of a 49-year-old man at a west Macon apartment complex last month.
Bibb County sheriff’s deputies and the U.S. Marshals Service had been looking for the suspect, Thomas Samuel Pate.
Sometime Wednesday they reached Pate by phone and persuaded him to turn himself in at the county’s criminal-investigations bureau on Third Street.
Pate is thought to be the fourth person arrested in connection with the Nov. 22 slaying of a man investigators believe was robbed and shot at Riverbend Apartments on Mercer University Drive.
The victim in the shooting, Romero Gonzalez, was found lying beside an automobile, investigators have said.
Pate, of a Lucerne Drive address about half a mile from the shooting scene, was charged with murder and being party to a crime.
He was being held without bond at the county lockup.
Information from Telegraph archives was used in this report.
This story was originally published December 17, 2020 at 11:37 AM.