Neighbors say they rarely saw family at north Macon home before homicides
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An ex-firefighter who cleans crime scenes for a living tucked an envelope between a busted door and a bloody window of a Macon home Wednesday.
Scott Bogulski, the 49-year-old crime scene cleaner from Forsyth, was unable to contact victims’ relatives or a property owner to allow him to clean up the Lake Wildwood home where Bibb County deputies allege a man killed his family members and died by suicide Tuesday.
“I was leaving my paperwork at the door and I was hoping you were family,” Bogulski told The Telegraph Wednesday afternoon. “When I get in, I’m telling you, more than 70% of the time, what you were told happened in that house, what the police put on their report, is different than what actually happened.”
Deputies said they were initially at the home Tuesday morning to evict the family, then heard gunshots inside the residence, according to a news release from the Bibb County Sheriff’s Office.
A window facing the front yard had a bloody bullet hole when The Telegraph visited the scene Wednesday.
Haliegh Summers, a 21-year-old woman; Brande Summers, Haliegh’s 49-year-old mom; and a dog and cat were allegedly shot to death by Ray Summers, Brande’s 51-year-old husband, Sgt. Christopher Williams said. Then Ray Summers allegedly died by suicide, deputies said.
Neighbors around the Lake Wildwood house said they rarely saw the family who lived there.
Rebecca Leslie said she has lived across from the Summers’ house for about 15 years. She and another neighbor, Sherry Ballard, 78, said they rarely saw Ray Summers in his yard in recent months.
“We’ve only ever seen him come in and out,” Leslie said. “I had no idea that there was a wife and a kid there.”
Leslie said Ray Summers lived there for about six months; Ballard said it was a few years.
Through Leslie’s front windows, she watched law enforcement swarm her usually quiet dead-end street during the incident Tuesday.
“I was a little concerned because (officers) were using our cars as like shields and stuff, pointing guns over there,” she said.
The Summers’ front door was bordered up with plywood after a SWAT team rammed in and found the victims dead inside. The SWAT team and crisis negotiators were dispatched because people were “barricaded” inside, the sheriff’s office said.
“They pulled the SWAT truck in the yard and tied a rope to the screen door that was on there and yanked it off and then used the ramming (pole) on the end of the SWAT truck... to push the door in,” Leslie said.
The screen and entrance doors were left destroyed on the porch and yard Wednesday. A vehicle was parked in the yard but it was unclear if anyone was inside the home. A porch lamp and interior ceiling light were left on.
Bibb County Coroner Leon Jones said Ray Summers was recently fired from his job at YKK Americas, a local zipper manufacturing company. Ray Summers worked there for about a decade, Jones said.
A Middle Georgia-based company named The People Sales & Profit Co. owns the property, according to public property records.
According to the Georgia Secretary of State, the company was formed in 2007 and is based out of Byron. When reached for comment Thursday, the CEO/CFO said they did not own the Lake Wildwood home and didn’t know why records showed it was connected to their company.
In the meantime, Bogulski said he’ll wait for permission from either the home or property owner, or victims’ next of kin before cleaning up the scene.
“I wanted to get them my paperwork before they thought, ‘I gotta clean this myself,’” Bogulski said, then drove off to another crime scene.
This story was originally published February 19, 2026 at 3:38 PM.
