Macon man says childhood friend Facebook-messaged him for ride then carjacked him
On a recent Saturday morning, a Macon man apparently decided to do an old friend a favor. At least that is how it was described in a Bibb County sheriff’s report involving an alleged carjacking on June 27.
A 21-year-old man said he was contacted in a Facebook message by a guy he knew when they were kids. The guy messaging him, 22, needed a ride from the Oyo Hotel on Romeiser Drive near Interstate 475. The 21-year-old later told the cops that he drove over in his 1993 Honda Accord and agreed to give the fellow a lift to the guy’s mom’s house in the Fort Hill neighborhood on Macon’s east side.
The driver said that as they neared the edge of the historic Indian Mounds toward the end of Main Street, the passenger pulled a Glock pistol and said, “Gimme your car and phone.”
The driver replied, “You really gonna do me like this? We grew up together.”
After the gunman took off in the car, the 21-year-old called the police and later showed them the alleged bandit’s name and picture on Facebook. A lookout was radioed to other cops and the car soon turned up near the spot where the suspect had been picked up.
Deputies, in their report, said the suspect saw them and ran into some woods on the west side of the interstate. About an hour later, the alleged carjacker was found, having “climbed head first into a drain” to possibly cross under a freeway on-ramp. He was, however, unable to squeeze through. The incident report said the keys to the Honda were in one of the alleged carjacker’s pants pockets.
Dispatches: A 62-year-old man on Ell Street in Macon told the cops June 22 that a woman hit him with a stick. He said the woman, 50, who was said to have been holding a stick and a screwdriver, had popped his bicycle’s tires. He wanted her arrested. The woman said the two were arguing over $3 worth of crack cocaine and that the man had turned off her electricity. The two were cited for disorderly conduct. . . . A woman on Edna Place in Macon said she and her husband were going through a divorce and that one evening in mid-June he returned home drunk. He was said to have been, as a sheriff’s report put it, “very loud-mouthed.” The woman said her husband then flung a brick and hit a neighbor’s car. “She said her husband did not like the neighbor.”