Teen charged with murder in death of Bibb County Sheriff’s Office employee

16-year-old Adonis Rhodes arrested and charged with murder in death of Bibb County Sheriff’s office employee.

MACON, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) – Investigators with the Bibb County Sheriff’s Gang Unit and U.S. Marshals Southeastern Regional Fugitive Task Force made a fourth arrest in connection to the shooting death of a Bibb County Sheriff’s Office employee.

16-year-old Adonis Rhodes was booked and taken to the Macon Regional Youth Detention Center. He charged with murder for the death of 23-year-old Vernard Mays. Mays worked in the warrants division at the sheriff’s office. He was shot and killed at a home on Second Street in Macon on October 27th.

Rhodes is the fourth suspect arrested. No bond has been set.

In October, 19-year-old Jadarien Flowers was arrested and charged with murder and probation violation. 16-year-old Drayson MacDonald and 19-year-old Michael Dewayne Hardy, Junior are also in the Bibb County Jail, facing charges in Mays’ death. Both are charged with felony murder. MacDonald is charged as an adult.

Sheriff David Davis says a group of people knocked on the back door of 23-year-old Vernard Mays’ home on Second Street around 9:30 p.m. When Mays opened the door, several shots were fired and he was hit in the groin. Mays was sent to the hospital where he later died.