Passerby finds man shot to death Friday morning on Churchill Street in Macon
Someone walking along Churchill Street on the north side of Macon’s Unionville neighborhood on Friday morning discovered the body of a man who’d been shot to death, Bibb County Coroner Leon Jones said.
The victim, Amond Rashad Norwood, 26, found under a mattress shortly after 9 a.m., suffered “multiple gunshot wounds,” Jones said.
Officials said Norwood’s body was lying amid debris in an illegal dump site in the 3000 block of Churchill, between Columbus Road and Napier Avenue, about half a dozen blocks west of Pio Nono Avenue.
“Investigators are following leads and believe that the homicide occurred at a different location,” sheriff’s officials said in a statement.
The shooting death appeared to be the city’s eighth homicide in the past 31 days, all but one, the April 6 stabbing of a sheriff’s deputy in the county jail, the result of gunshot wounds.
Should the incident be deemed a murder, it would be Macon’s 18th such case of 2021.
Four other homicides this year have resulted either in involuntary manslaughter or vehicular homicide charges.
This story was originally published May 7, 2021 at 10:45 AM.