Macon woman claims cousin in Buick ran her down

The call for help went out on the police radio as a “fight in progress.” When a Bibb County sheriff’s deputy got there on the evening of April 17, as the deputy later noted in his write-up, “I met with several females in the front yard screaming at each other.” The incident happened on Grand Avenue, not far from the intersection of Napier and Brookdale avenues, just west of Macon’s Payne City community. The woman who’d called the cops, a 37-year-old, “was getting up off the ground not showing any signs of injury as she walked to a nearby chair,” the deputy’s report went on. She said her cousin had “bumped her” with a 2003 Buick Park Avenue and knocked her down. She said she wanted the cousin “locked up for running over her.” The woman’s kin gathered there told another story and said the woman “needed to stop lying to the police,” the report noted. The woman, though, insisted she’d been run down. She said she had been keeping her cousin’s kids while the cousin went to a cookout, and that she herself had gone to the cookout to tell the cousin to come and get the kids. It was later, when the cousin returned, that the matter escalated. Other people at the scene on Grand Avenue said the woman who was complaining had put her foot on the Buick’s bumper and lost her balance. Soon the angry woman was complaining of “a severe limp.” The deputy found no probable cause for a crime, noting in the report that “I did not observe any bruising, swelling or any other visible signs of injury.”

This story was originally published May 12, 2016 at 12:00 AM with the headline "Macon woman claims cousin in Buick ran her down."