Crime

Macon teen dies in hospital 4 days after shooting on city’s south side, coroner says

A 19-year-old Macon man who was shot and critically wounded at a house on Dewey Street on the city’s south side Wednesday died Sunday afternoon at a local hospital, Bibb County’s coroner said.

The victim, Marquez Card, was shot “multiple times,” Coroner Leon Jones said, during what sheriff’s investigators described as “an altercation” in the 1200 block of Dewey Street.

The shooting happened at about 1 p.m. Wednesday in a neighborhood just south of Rocky Creek Road between Pio Nono and Houston avenues.

The person who was said to have shot Card left before the cops showed up, sheriff’s officials said.

This story was originally published July 11, 2021 at 3:49 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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