Crime

Teen jailed on murder charge in early-April shooting death at west Macon apartments

A Macon teenager was arrested early Tuesday at a Houston Avenue-area boarding house and charged with murder in the early-April shooting death of Kenneth Wendell Snead Jr.

Robert James Ottman Jr., 17, was jailed shortly after 1 a.m. by Bibb County sheriff’s deputies who received a tip that he was at a boarding house on Ponce de Leon Avenue, nine blocks south of Eisenhower Parkway, officials said.

According to investigators, Ottman had been wanted for questioning in the wake of the 24-year-old Snead’s slaying at Blossom Hill Estates apartments at 4006 Mercer University Drive the morning of April 2.

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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