UPDATE: Coroner identifies man found dead Tuesday on Magnolia Street

Macon-Bibb Coroner Leon Jones identified the man found dead on Tuesday as 41-year-old Larry Wayne Blackmon.

UPDATE (3/13/24): Macon-Bibb Coroner Leon Jones identified the man found dead as 41-year-old Larry Wayne Blackmon.

A previous update stated the individual had been identified as another man, based on a fingerprint scanner identification reported by Macon-Bibb Coroner Leon Jones. Upon further investigation, Coroner Jones spoke with that man’s father, who indicated his son could not be the deceased as he was in prison at the time. Jones says a subsequent scan by a Georgia Bureau of Investigation (GBI) scanner correctly identified the man as Blackmon. Blackmon’s next of kin has been notified.

ORIGINAL STORY (3/5/24):

MACON, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) – Macon-Bibb Coroner Leon Jones says a body was found on Tuesday afternoon on Magnolia Street.

Jones says a man was walking down the street around 3:30 p.m. when he “looked to his right and noticed what he thought was a body.”

That’s when the man called 911.

Jones identified the deceased person as a white man he believes to be in his late 40s or early 50s. He was pronounced dead at 3:50.

Jones says he didn’t want to speculate on a cause or time of death until an autopsy is complete but did say there were no visible signs of trauma.

Call the Bibb County Sheriff’s Office at (478) 751-7500 or Macon Regional Crimestoppers at 1-877-68-CRIME if you have information.