Witnesses say the shots came from an automatic weapon, and witnesses also told deputies a fight inside the club sparked the shooting.
“In the interest of public safety and in the interest of just stepping up and stopping everything so the investigation can be completed, we decided to suspend the license,” Davis said Wednesday.
The sheriff’s office can take away alcohol licenses if it has reason to believe a violent event sparked inside or within 100 yards of a business.
Mayor Lester Miller says something needs to change.
“I think there’s some issues that need to be addressed,” Miller explained. “As a sheriff’s office and I think as a government, we owe it to our citizens to give them a safe place to go.”
Fallen Bibb deputy to be honored in motorcycle ride Wednesday
27-year-old Deputy Kenterrous Taylor was killed after getting thrown from his cruiser in a crash near the intersection of Forsyth Road and Napier Avenue in 2020 Author: 13WMAZ Staff Updated: 11:19 PM EDT July 13, 2021
MACON, Ga. Wednesday, a national motorcycle group will honor a deputy killed in a traffic accident in 2020.
According to a news release from the Bibb County Sheriff s Office, the event, The Beyond the Call of Duty – End of Watch Ride to Remember, will be held in honor of 27-year-old Deputy Kenterrous Taylor. Taylor was killed after getting thrown from his cruiser in a crash near the intersection of Forsyth Road and Napier Avenue in March 2020.
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MACON, Ga. (AP) - A passerby discovered the body of man shot to death under a mattress that had been dumped in middle Georgia.
Bibb County Coroner Leon Jones tells local news outlets that 26-year-old Amond Rashad Norwood, of Macon, was found dead Friday under a mattress, shot multiple times.
His body and the mattress were part of an illegal dump site in a residential neighborhood west of Macon’s downtown.
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Bibb County Sheriff David Davis told WMAZ-TV that investigators believe Norwood was killed on a nearby street.
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Kemp orders flags lowered to half-staff for slain Bibb County deputy
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Deputy Christopher Knight, 30, was stabbed at the county jail early Tuesday morning as he was helping to move an inmate on suicide watch to another cell, investigators said. A fight broke out and an inmate was able to grab a knife off of Knight and stab the deputy twice with it.
He was rushed to an area hospital where he later was pronounced dead.
On Friday, Gov. Kemp issued an executive order lowering the flags to half-staff through April 13. In a tweet, the governor wrote: