DeVante Green, a 24-year-old Black man, was killed on October 13, 2019, after gunfire erupted at Charlestowne South Apartments on Lumpkin Road in Augusta, Georgia. That Sunday night ended with officers and investigators gathering around the apartment complex while Green, who was from Grovetown, was found behind one of the buildings with at least one gunshot wound. He was pronounced dead at the scene at about 7:35 p.m., and what first unfolded publicly was a case marked by shock, confusion, and very few immediate answers.
In the first reports after the shooting, authorities had not announced a suspect or a motive. The killing pushed Richmond County’s homicide count higher that year, and the details that emerged painted a hard contrast between Green’s future and the way his life ended. Family members said he had been preparing to leave for Savannah the next morning after accepting a new job, which gave the case an added sense of cruelty: a young man on the edge of a fresh start was dead before he could make it there.
Weeks later, the case took a turn when an Augusta man, Michael Williams, 20, was charged with murder in Green’s death. Reports said Williams was arrested on November 27, 2019, and formally charged the following Tuesday. Those same accounts repeated that Green had been shot in the 2100 block of Lumpkin Road and found behind one of the apartment buildings, confirming that investigators had moved from an early stage with no publicly identified suspect to at least one arrest in the case.
Even with that arrest, the public record available online appears limited when it comes to what happened next. The reporting clearly shows that Williams was charged with murder, but widely available online accounts do not appear to provide a full public trail of later developments such as a trial, conviction, or final case resolution. As a result, the story that remains in public view is one of a fatal shooting at an Augusta apartment complex, a grieving family left with a life cut short, and a case that did produce a murder charge against Michael Williams, even though later courtroom outcomes are not readily documented in the sources available online.
