UPDATE: Three arrested in shooting of 10-year-old boy Monday in Milledgeville

Police have arrested three suspects in connection with a fatal shooting of a 10-year-old boy early Monday morning in Milledgeville.

The shooting happened around 1:30 a.m. Monday in the 200 block Harrisburg Road in southwest Milledgeville, Baldwin County Sheriff Bill Massee said during a press conference. Damarion Bird, 10, was in a mobile home with his father, asleep in bed, when someone started shooting.

More than 15 shots hit the mobile home, Massee said, and one shot wounded Bird. He was taken to a local hospital where he later died. The father was not hurt in the shooting.

Massee said the shooter was hiding in the woods about 100 feet away when he shot at the mobile home.

Baldwin sheriff’s deputies and GBI agents arrested Rodracius Demaris Stephens, 39, at about 2 p.m. Monday in a Milledgeville hotel and charged him with felony murder. Stephens was arrested for multiple drug offenses as recently as 2019, including possession of cocaine, court documents show.

Tuesday, officials announced the arrest of Shamonica Kiera Reeves and Charles Chavez Jackson Jr. Baldwin County Sheriff’s Deputies are searching for Jerrell Antwoin Stubbs in connection with the shooting.

The cause of the shooting was unclear, but Massee said the home was targeted.

Bird was a student at Lakeview Academy in Milledgeville. The Baldwin sheriff’s office notified the school when Bird was identified. Bird’s death is the second murder in Milledgeville this year, Massee said.

This story was originally published March 6, 2023 at 4:11 PM.