Macon man enters plea in fatal shooting that happened during domestic dispute in 2020

A Macon man pleaded guilty on Monday to voluntary manslaughter in the December 2020 shooting death of another man at a house on Shearwater Drive in southwest Macon.

Jeremy Travontia Brown, now 31, had been accused of murder in the slaying of 31-year-old Courvoisie Jamal Reid.

After Brown entered his plea, Bibb County Superior Court Judge Jeffery O. Monroe sentenced Brown to serve 12 years of a 20-year term in state prison.

According to court documents and statements from investigators in the wake of the Dec. 6, 2020, episode, Reid had been in a fight with his girlfriend when Brown was summoned from a house nearby to break up the dispute. Brown, armed with a pistol, shot Reid, mortally wounding him while the two men fought.

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.