Suspect in Warner Robins murder arrested at mother’s house in Dodge County, cops say
A 20-year-old Cochran man was arrested Monday evening at his mother’s house in neighboring Dodge County and charged with murder in the Friday shooting death of a teenager in Warner Robins.
The suspect, Gregory Tyshon Davis, also was charged with aggravated assault after Warner Robins police and members of the U.S. Marshals Service Southeast Regional Fugitive Task Force tracked Davis down at a house on Neese Street on the north side of Eastman.
He had been wanted in the shooting of Deandre Pitts, 19, who was fatally wounded about 8 p.m. Friday at a house at 1305 Hartley Ave. in a neighborhood between South Pleasant Hill Road and Warner Robins High School.
According to a news release from Warner Robins police early Saturday, Pitts was said to have been at the house playing video games with two friends “when two males entered the open front door and began shooting.”
The gunmen, according to the scenario that investigators first released, were described as roughly 6 feet tall dressed in black with their faces covered.
Pitts was taken to a Macon hospital but died. Pitts’ friends were not shot, cops said Saturday, but one was slightly injured.
Tuesday’s Warner Robins police statement regarding the arrest, however, described the suspect Davis as being the other “injured party” mentioned in the Saturday-morning news release.
Further details were not immediately available.
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Pitts’ uncle, Tarious Pitts, said the 6-foot-6 Deandre, raised in Cochran, was a standout in basketball, football and track at Bleckley County High School.
He moved to Wilkinson County High for his senior year and played football and basketball there before graduating last spring.
The 6-foot-6 Deandre had hopes of attending Columbus State University and playing sports there, his uncle said.
Tarious Pitts, 43, said his nephew was his sister’s only son and had for a time worked at a fireworks shop in Warner Robins, where Deandre was most recently living with his father.
Asked Tuesday morning about the arrest in Deandre’s death, Tarious Pitts said, “I haven’t even dug into the why and who as of yet. ... I’m not even thinking about that right now.”
He added that what he will remember most is the slain teen’s determination.
“He excelled at every sport,” Tarious Pitts said.
“He just lived his life to the fullest and whatever he did he put his all into it. ... Everyone around him looked up to him because of the things he was doing, and how effortless he did it.”
This story was originally published February 23, 2021 at 9:44 AM.