Crime

16-year-old found dead, victim of shooting on Macon’s southwest side, coroner says

A 16-year-old boy was found shot to death Wednesday evening in southwest Macon, Bibb County Coroner Leon Jones told the Telegraph.

The victim, Ahmori Searcy, of Macon, was found about 7 p.m. after sheriff’s deputies were called to a wooded patch at Majestic Gardens apartments in the 2500 block of Rocky Creek Road about a “person down,” Jones said.

Sheriff’s officials later said in a statement that Searcy had been shot one time while walking in a parking lot at the apartments when “an unknown subject” began firing.

A description of the culprit was not immediately known.

The area where the shooting happened is on the south side of Rocky Creek near a Family Dollar store, just east of the Bloomfield Road curve.

Searcy’s death was the county’s ninth homicide of the year and the third in the past 11 days.

This story was originally published March 3, 2021 at 8:54 PM.

Joe Kovac Jr.
The Telegraph
Joe Kovac Jr. writes about local news and features for The Telegraph, with an eye for human-interest stories. Joe is a Warner Robins native and graduate of Warner Robins High. He joined the Telegraph in 1991 after graduating from the University of Georgia. As a Pulliam Fellowship recipient in 1991, Joe worked for the Indianapolis News. His stories have appeared in the Washington Post, the Seattle Times and Atlanta Magazine. He has been a Livingston Award finalist and won numerous Georgia Press Association and Georgia Associated Press awards.
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