Macon woman pleads guilty in boyfriend's death: 'I'm never going to find God again. I'm sorry'
A Macon woman was sentenced to 20 years Friday -- 15 of them in prison -- after she pleaded guilty to voluntary manslaughter in a shooting that led to her boyfriend's death.
Lisa Michelle Mack, 43, cried as she apologized to the family of her slain boyfriend, 49-year-old Jerald Corbin, during the hearing in Bibb County Superior Court.
"I'm never going to find God again. I'm sorry," she said.
Although Mack's lawyer said Mack and Corbin planned on getting married, prosecutor Neil Halvorson said the status of their relationship from that time is in dispute.
Bibb County deputies were called to Corbin's Radio Drive home on May 25, 2015 -- Memorial Day -- in response to a report of a shooting.
Corbin and Mack denied that anyone had been shot. After a deputy found blood in the house, they said Mack's foot had been cut by broken glass, Halvorson said.
Later that day, Corbin went to the hospital. When asked what had happened, he said he'd been walking near a Montpelier Avenue gas station when he heard shots. He figured he'd been shot then, Halvorson said.
Police soon realized Corbin wasn't shot on Montpelier Avenue, and they went back to the Radio Drive home, where they found a gun and talked to Mack again.
She admitted that he'd shot Corbin in the shoulder or upper chest after talking with him on the phone and hearing that he was with another woman, Halvorson said.
At a September bond hearing in the case, prosecutor Larissa Olliverre said Mack confronted Corbin at some point before the shooting about her suspicion that he was cheating on her.
Olliverre said Mack told Corbin: "I have several personalities, and none of them like you cheating on me."
She said Mack heard Corbin and a woman "moaning" and "other things that made her come to the conclusion" that he was cheating.
During that hearing, Mack's lawyer described what her client heard as Corbin having sex. She also said Mack has a history of mental illness and has received treatment.
Corbin died about a week after the shooting.
An autopsy determined that his death was caused by a "cardiac arrhythmia" -- irregularity in the heart's beating -- due to the gunshot wound, Halvorson said. Involuntary manslaughter generally refers to an unintentional killing that results from recklessness or criminal negligence.
Corbin's sister, Angela Corbin, spoke during Friday's hearing, saying her family "has been truly broken" after her brother's death.
Another of her siblings, a brother, also died six weeks before the shooting.
"He was a good person," she said of Corbin. "He was loved by a lot of people."
In sentencing Mack, Judge Howard Simms told her, "whatever he did, it didn't warrant what happened to him."
"You chose to handle it a different way, and there's a price for that," he said.
To contact writer Amy Leigh Womack, call 744-4398.
This story was originally published February 12, 2016 at 5:14 PM with the headline "Macon woman pleads guilty in boyfriend's death: 'I'm never going to find God again. I'm sorry' ."