24-year-old man shot to death in Macon’s Pleasant Hill neighborhood, Bibb coroner says
A 24-year-old Macon man was shot and killed Tuesday afternoon behind a duplex on Grier Street in the city’s Pleasant Hill neighborhood.
The victim, Shawn Deontae Watts Jr., died at the scene, Bibb County Coroner Leon Jones said.
Bibb County sheriff’s officials later said that a second man, 18-year-old Cleveland Raines, had also been shot during the 4 p.m. incident and that Raines was being treated at a city hospital Tuesday evening.
The shooting scene at 378 Grier lies just east of Rogers Avenue, roughly halfway between Vineville and Ingleside avenues.
The cause of the shootings was not immediately known, but late Tuesday sheriff’s officials said they had arrested Raines’ brother and jailed him on a murder charge.
The officials noted in a statement sent to news outlets that Khalil Malik Raines, 24, had driven Cleveland Raines to a city hospital.
“While at the hospital, investigators transported Kahlil to the Bibb County Sheriff’s Office Violent Crimes Division to be interviewed about the fatal shooting incident,” the statement said. “After being interviewed by investigators about the incident, Raines was transported to the (county jail).”
Watts’ slaying is the county’s 48th violent homicide of the year and potentially the 40th killing to be considered a murder case.
This story was originally published November 16, 2021 at 5:17 PM.