Macon man gets threatening texts; woman ‘jumped’ because of Facebook post

Dispatches: A former bus driver who sometimes transported patients at a Macon medical facility told a Bibb County sheriff’s deputy last month that a man he’d befriended, one of the patients, was now sending him bothersome text messages. The messages, an incident report noted, were about how the patient was “wanting to become friends again” with the driver. The driver never responded, and soon the messages escalated to threats. The patient texted that he would be somewhere waiting for the driver with “my kitchen knife” and that “this war is not over unless you forgive me and agree to be friends again.” . . . On April 24, a sheriff’s deputy was dispatched to Shoe Carnival, a store on Presidential Parkway near the Target in west Macon. Someone at the shoe store said a customer had tried on a $100 pair of Nike Air Flight Falcon sneakers. The customer then made his way for the door. When a sales clerk told him he had to pay for the shoes, the man said he was going to. But he didn’t. He just kept on walking and left the store. He left “his old flip-flops in the shoe box of the stolen shoes,” the deputy’s write-up noted. . . . On April 18, there was a fight outside the Family Dollar store in the 3500 block of Houston Avenue in Macon. The store sits across from Bruce Elementary School. A 20-year-old woman told a sheriff’s deputy that she’d been walking to the store when a teenage girl “jumped” her. The woman said she’d had problems with the girl before because, as the deputy’s report put it, she “is mad with her because of a Facebook post and a guy.”

This story was originally published May 20, 2016 at 12:00 AM with the headline "Macon man gets threatening texts; woman ‘jumped’ because of Facebook post."