Warner Robins Police says 19-year old man accidentally shot and killed himself

UPDATE: Warner Police say Dante Tobias accidentally shot himself. Police say the cause of death was determined following the results of an autopsy.

WARNER ROBINS, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) – Warner Robins Police are investigating a suspicious death of a 19-year-old man. The incident happened this morning just before 1 behind a home off of Windsor Drive.

The grandmother describes 19-year-old Dante Tobias as a loving and caring man who lit up the room with his smile and funny personality. Warner Robins Police are saying they think he died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound. But the family says other wise and believe someone killed him.

I talked to my grandson yesterday. We video chatted. He said we [were] going home to Louisiana and he was going to help me drive home and next thing I know, he’s not here,” his grandmother Leure Tobias said.

She is looking for answers about what happened to her grandson.

“They say he shot himself, but I don’t believe it. Somebody killed my grandson,” she said.

Dante died in Tawanda Hart’s shed from what police are predicting as an accidental shooting, that he shot himself.

Hart says he was a friend of her son’s and a group of friends was in her shed hanging out.

“He knew guns. He use to hunt and why if he knew a bullet was in the chamber and it was on a safety, and that gun has two safeties, shoot himself? So it’s hard to believe it just went off like that,”  Tobias said.

Warner Robins Police Department Public Information Officer Jennifer Parson says this is still an open investigating until the autopsy comes in.

“It’s tough for our officers. It’s tough for the whole community really, because we’re all members of this community. Whenever we lose anyone, it’s tough and we don’t want that to happen,” Parson said.

No word on where Dante was shot or who called police.

Hart says she was laying down when the gunshots went off.

If you have any information on this case, call  Det. Trent VanLannen at 478-302-5380 or Macon Regional Crimestoppers at 1-877-68CRIME.