Macon man sentenced to life for 2023 murder of Zyshown Dunn

Torey Antwan Burnette pleaded guilty to malice murder in the shooting death of 21-year-old Zyshown Treortic Dunn. His sentence includes the possibility of parole.

MACON, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) — A Macon man was sentenced to life in prison with the possibility of parole Wednesday after pleading guilty to malice murder in the 2023 shooting death of 21-year-old Zyshown Treortic Dunn.

33-year-old Torey Antwan Burnette entered the plea in Superior Court, according to the Macon Judicial Circuit District Attorney’s Office.

Prosecutors said the shooting happened April 2, 2023 inside a home on Log Cabin Drive that belonged to Burnette’s late grandmother. Burnette lived there with relatives.

According to prosecutors, Burnette had become angry because he believed other people living in the home owed him money and were using drugs there.

Prosecutors said Burnette confronted Dunn, a friend of his cousin, in an upstairs hallway and ordered him to leave. When Dunn refused, Burnette retrieved a 9 mm pistol from his bedroom and fired three shots, striking Dunn in the torso and face.

Dunn was found on the bathroom floor still holding his cellphone.

Bibb County deputies arrested Burnette at the scene after he surrendered the gun. The district attorney’s office said Burnette later confessed to investigators and described the confrontation and shooting in detail.

“Torey Burnette took Zyshown Dunn’s life over a dispute that never should have ended in gunfire,” Macon Judicial Circuit District Attorney Anita Howard said. “With his plea of guilty, Mr. Burnette took accountability for his conduct. It is our hope this action will provide closure and a measure of justice for Mr. Dunn’s family and loved ones.”