Suspect killed by deputies after fatal shooting at Macon Family Dollar
A man was killed by deputies Tuesday, just hours after he allegedly shot and killed a woman and injured a man at a Family Dollar in Macon, the Bibb County Sheriff’s Office announced Wednesday.
Catrell Tywon Ford, 43, was confirmed dead after he was named as a suspect in a shooting that killed Regina Darlene Smith, 56, and left a 79-year-old man critically injured around 4:30 p.m. Tuesday in the parking lot of Family Dollar on Jeffersonville Road, deputies said.
The sheriff’s office identified Ford as a suspect who fled the scene at Family Dollar and was believed to be “armed and dangerous,” deputies said in a news release.
The Bibb and Jones County sheriff’s offices and Georgia State Patrol later found Ford around 9:45 p.m. at a convenience store at Spring Street and Riverside Drive, a news release from Bibb County deputies said.
“Ford was given several verbal commands to stop,” then ran over 300 yards into a wooded area on the 90 block of Spring Street, deputies said.
Two Bibb County deputies assigned to the U.S. Marshals Southeast Regional Taskforce “encountered Ford in the woods,” and shot him, Sgt. Christopher Williams told The Telegraph.
“There was an exchange of gunfire which left Ford mortally wounded,” deputies said.
Other deputies rendered aid to Ford, then the Macon-Bibb Fire Department responded and removed Ford from the area. Paramedics also treated Ford at the scene and took him to a medical facility, where he was pronounced dead by medical staff, according to the sheriff’s office.
Ford’s family was notified of his death by Wednesday morning.
No one else was injured, deputies said.
The sheriff’s office asked the Georgia Bureau of Investigation to investigate the shooting, and the sheriff’s office’s Internal Affairs Office will conduct an internal investigation as well.
Anyone with information related to the Family Dollar shooting or the shooting that left Ford dead was urged to call the sheriff’s office at 478-751-7500, or Macon Regional Crimestoppers at 1-988-68CRIME.
This story may be updated as more information becomes available.
This story was originally published September 3, 2025 at 11:02 AM.