Three shootings in south Macon leave two dead, three injured over weekend

Three shootings in Macon left two people dead and three more injured over the weekend and brought the city’s homicide total this year to 17, officials said.

The three shootings were within roughly five miles of each other in south Macon between Bloomfield Road and Mercer University Drive, according to statements from the Bibb County Sheriff’s Office. A Macon teen and man were killed in two separate shootings hours apart Saturday night while another teen was injured Sunday.

The first shooting happened around 3 p.m. on the 5900 block of Bloomfield Road just east of Interstate 475 in south Macon, the sheriff’s office said. A vehicle drove through the area, shot into a house and hit Ozias Gore, 15.

First responders took Gore to a local hospital where he died after the shooting. His next of kin were notified, Bibb coroner Leon Jones said. No one else was injured.

A second person died hours later Saturday less than five miles north of that spot. The second shooting happened around 10 p.m. at 3229 Mercer University Drive near the Anthony Road intersection.

A group of people were grilling in a parking lot when a car pulled up and shot into the group, according to the statement from the sheriff’s office. Trenton Walter Harris, 24, died at the scene. Two other victims rode in personal vehicles to a local hospital and were in stable condition.

Another shooting at about 7 p.m. Sunday on Grosso Avenue, about a mile east of the shooting on Mercer University Drive, left a 14-year-old girl wounded after an argument, according to a statement from the sheriff’s office.

The two killings Saturday bring Macon-Bibb County’s homicide total to 17 in 2023, according to Telegraph archives. The city has averaged more than one killing per week 14 weeks into the year.