Chauncey Jevon Love II, a 27-year-old Black man, came to Macon from Orange Park, Florida, and on the night of November 23, 2021, his life ended in the parking lot of the Best Western on Riverside Drive. Deputies were called just after 11 p.m. about a man who had been shot inside a vehicle, and when they arrived they found Love unresponsive. Investigators later said he had traveled to Bibb County with two other men from Florida for a marijuana transaction, and that somewhere in the middle of that meeting, the encounter turned violent. According to authorities and later court summaries, Love was shot during the deal, tried to drive away, and his vehicle crossed Riverside Drive and ended up in a ditch, leaving behind the kind of scene that feels abrupt and chaotic even in the bare language of police reports.
In the days after the killing, Bibb County investigators began identifying the people they believed had surrounded that deal. The first named suspect was Javacea Javonne Battle of Atlanta, who was arrested on December 1, 2021. Soon after that, a second arrest followed: Isaac Folabi-Sola Adesina of Hampton. Investigators said both men were connected to the homicide, and at that stage the case was still widening, with the sheriff’s office warning that additional arrests were likely. The picture that emerged was not of a random burst of violence, but of a planned meetup that went wrong and left Love dead far from home, in a hotel parking lot where the people involved had come together for a drug transaction and then scattered into separate jurisdictions after the gunfire.
The case kept growing. In January 2022, authorities arrested Lucky Chiderah Udeh of Stone Mountain in connection with the shooting. Then in March 2022, they announced a fourth arrest, taking Jamir Kortez Culbreath of Jonesboro into custody with the help of Clayton County deputies and the U.S. Marshals. Reports from the time said Culbreath was charged with murder, marijuana-related offenses, and three counts of aggravated assault. Later accounts from prosecutors described him as the gunman who got into the backseat of Love’s car, where a struggle broke out before shots were fired. Udeh, prosecutors said, exited a vehicle and pointed a rifle toward the rear of Love’s car, while Adesina and Battle were described as the men who helped set up the marijuana sale and provided armed backup.
For a long time, the case sat in that familiar place between arrest and final judgment, but by 2025 it had reached its legal end. Prosecutors announced that all four defendants had pleaded guilty for their roles in Love’s death. Culbreath, identified as the shooter, pleaded guilty on August 15, 2025, to voluntary manslaughter and aggravated assault and received a 40-year sentence with 20 years to serve. Udeh later pleaded guilty to aggravated assault and was sentenced to 20 years with 10 to serve. Adesina and Battle each pleaded guilty to sale of marijuana and possession of a firearm during the commission of a felony; each received a 15-year sentence, with Adesina ordered to serve three years and Battle two. Prosecutors said all four were also permanently barred from returning to the Macon Judicial Circuit. In the end, the public record tells the story in pieces: a hotel parking lot, a drug deal, a burst of gunfire, a young man from Florida dying in his car, and four men eventually admitting in court that they had played a part in the violence that killed Chauncey Jevon Love II.
