Kameron Antonio Ross, a 4-year-old Black boy from Warner Robins, died on September 10, 2021, after a gunshot wound at Pendleton Homes on Houston Avenue in Macon, where authorities said he had been visiting his grandmother that Friday night. The call came in just after 8:30 p.m., and he was rushed by private vehicle to Atrium Health Navicent, but he was pronounced dead a little before 9:30 p.m.
In the first blur of the investigation, deputies treated the scene as the shooting death of a small child inside an apartment, while the coroner confirmed his identity and said his family had been notified.
As investigators worked backward through the apartment, the story that emerged was not of an outside gunman forcing his way in, but of a weapon left within reach of a child. The Bibb County Sheriff’s Office said Kameron found a firearm inside the apartment and accidentally shot himself. Deputies said the gun had been brought into the home by two juvenile males, ages 14 and 16, who lived there. Those two juveniles were interviewed during the investigation and then released into the custody of family members, leaving them identified in public reporting as part of the chain of events but not publicly named as arrested suspects in the immediate aftermath.
The one arrest publicly announced in connection with Kameron’s death was that of his grandmother, 50-year-old Kawana Liggins. Deputies said she was charged with tampering with evidence, a development that gave the case an added layer of anguish, suggesting that what happened in the apartment after the shot was fired became part of the criminal investigation too. News reports and the sheriff’s release both said additional charges were pending at that time, but in the online sources available, no later public report surfaced showing further arrests, publicly identified suspects, trial outcomes, or convictions tied to Kameron’s death beyond Liggins’ arrest and the mention of the two juveniles who were questioned and released.
What remains in the reporting is the stark image of a child who should have been safe inside a relative’s home, and a night that ended with deputies, hospital staff, and grieving family members confronting a loss that local authorities described as accidental but still serious enough to bring criminal charges. The official account left the case suspended between tragedy and accountability: a little boy dead, a grandmother jailed, two teens linked to the gun’s presence in the apartment, and investigators signaling that the full legal consequences were still being sorted out.
