Gregory Jessie, a 60-year-old man from Albany, Georgia, was killed in the early hours of October 14, 2022, after gunfire erupted near the intersection of West Second Avenue and Eugemar Drive in downtown Albany. Local reporting described the shooting as an apparent drive-by, and police said officers responded that morning to find Jessie fatally wounded. His death was reported as Albany’s 11th homicide of 2022, and the violence cast a long shadow over the city that day, coming amid another night of gunfire elsewhere in Albany. Online obituary notices later placed his death on the same date and identified him as an Albany resident, formerly of Dawson.
In the days that followed, investigators moved from the uncertainty of a still-open homicide to naming suspects. On October 22, 2022, the Albany Police Department announced that two people had been arrested in connection with Jessie’s killing: 43-year-old Latasha Kim Riggins-Santiago and 60-year-old Alec Lee Wilson. According to the police account reported by the Albany Herald, both had been identified as suspects in the shooting, interviewed by investigators, and then charged. The charges tied to the case were extensive. Beyond murder and aggravated assault, the pair were also reported to face firearm charges, along with drug-related accusations that included possession of cocaine with intent to distribute, possession of drug-related objects, and possession of tools during the commission of a crime.
The publicly available online reporting located here centers on the shooting itself and those arrests, and it does not provide a fuller narrative of a trial, conviction, or final court outcome in Jessie’s case. What the available sources do show is a case that moved quickly from street violence to arrests within about a week, with police saying they had identified the people they believed were responsible for the gunfire that ended Jessie’s life. In that sense, the story that remains online is one of a man killed in a sudden burst of violence on an Albany street, followed by an investigation that soon put two suspects in handcuffs and brought murder charges against them.
