Daniel Bonham, a 59-year-old White male, was killed in Albany, Georgia, on February 26, 2021, in a shooting that turned into one of the city’s grim double-homicide cases. Reports tied his death to the same burst of violence that also left Gwendolyn McMillan dead that day. What emerged from later court reporting was a scene that prosecutors described as brutal and deliberate: after an argument, the defendant reportedly indicated he would leave, then shot Bonham in the back of the head. Bonham’s death was later counted among the gun-violence killings recorded in Albany for that date, and his obituary identified him as Daniel Greg Bonham, born in Birmingham, Alabama, in October 1961.
In the first stage of the investigation, authorities focused on John McMillan, who was publicly sought by Albany police in connection with the killing of Gwendolyn McMillan, described in reports as his estranged wife. As the case widened, police announced that McMillan had also been charged in Daniel Bonham’s shooting death. Online reporting and police-related coverage do not point to a broader ring of suspects in Bonham’s killing; instead, they consistently center on McMillan as the person arrested and prosecuted in both deaths.
The case eventually moved from manhunt and warrants to a courtroom resolution. Later coverage reported that McMillan pleaded guilty to two counts of malice murder and two counts of aggravated assault for the shooting deaths of Gwendolyn McMillan and Daniel Bonham. That plea ended the uncertainty over whether the case would go to trial and resulted in life sentences, closing the criminal case with a conviction rather than an unsolved file. Based on the online sources available, the known arrest and conviction trail leads to one suspect, John McMillan, and no separate arrests in Bonham’s death were identified in the reporting reviewed.
