Bibb Sheriff on unsolved homicides: “We have suspects in many of them”

MACON, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) – Bibb County Sheriff David Davis addressed the number of homicides in Macon Monday, saying his office has leads on most of the murder cases.

On Oct. 19 a 16-year-old was shot and killed, marking the 22nd homicide in Macon this year, up from 20 in all of 2016.

“Most of these cases are from personal relationships, ” Sheriff Davis said. “We don’t have a situation where we have a gang warfare or a serial type of killer.”

Out of the 22 homicides in 2017, 19 of them were caused by at least one gunshot wound. The three other murders had female victims who were either stabbed to death or killed from blunt force trauma.

“It take everybody coming together,” Sheriff Davis said. “There are 10 or 15 or 20 investigators, as many as we need to cover different aspects of [the case].”

According to the Bibb County Sheriff’s Office, nine of the 22 homicides this year are unsolved.

“We have suspects in many of those, and we know people that know things that can tell us but they’re being very reluctant to come forward,” Sheriff Davis said.

Davis is encouraging anyone to with information on a homicide, to come forward, regardless of how insignificant the information may be.

“It takes that one piece of little crucial information that they think [we] don’t need to know or that [we] already know, but we may not already know it….so please call,” Sheriff Davis said.

If you have any information on any of the outstanding homicide cases in Macon, call the Bibb County Sheriff’s Office at 478-751-7500.