Eddie Lee Davis Jr., a 65-year-old Black male from Macon, was found dead on the morning of November 2, 2022, after a call came in about an abandoned silver Chevrolet Impala with dark tinted windows in the 200 block of Clisby Place near Hazlehurst Street. Deputies arrived to find him unresponsive in the back seat, and the scene had the eerie stillness of something violent that had ended before anyone nearby fully understood what had happened. Reports said the car was still running, the gear shift remained in drive, the driver’s door was open, and the left front tire was damaged. Authorities said Davis had been shot, with most early reports describing a gunshot wound to the chest, while one later report based on incident documents described the wound as to the stomach.
What began as a death investigation moved quickly. The Bibb County Sheriff’s Office said investigators developed information that pointed to 34-year-old Quartez Marquis Johnson. Additional tips then placed a man matching his description near the 4900 block of Riverside Drive in Macon, where deputies located and apprehended him. He was taken to the sheriff’s investigation division for questioning, and authorities announced later that same day that he had been charged with murder in Davis’s killing. Online reports also said he was being held without bond at the Bibb County Jail.
The case, as it appears in the online reporting, carries the feel of a life interrupted in motion: a car left under a railroad trestle, a body discovered in the back seat, and investigators piecing together what happened from the condition of the vehicle and the tips that followed. The sheriff’s office described the investigation as ongoing when the arrest was announced, and the publicly accessible news coverage I found focuses on the discovery of Davis’s body and Johnson’s same-day arrest and murder charge. I did not find later online reporting in those sources detailing a trial, conviction, or final court outcome.
