Marlon Jermaine Williams, 44, a Black man from Macon, was killed in the early hours of April 14, 2018, on Mason Street between Anthony Road and Carroll Street in west Macon. Deputies were called just before 2:30 a.m. on a report of a person shot, and when they arrived they found Williams lying in the road with a gunshot wound to the chest. He was pronounced dead at the scene, and investigators said the shooter had already fled before law enforcement got there.
Later coverage tied his killing to a burst of violence that same night in Macon, when multiple shootings unfolded across the city.
As the investigation widened, authorities connected Williams’ death to the killing of Ann Kathleen Leonard, an elderly woman who was struck by a stray bullet inside her home that same day. The case took on the feel of a chaotic and reckless chain reaction, with officials saying Leonard was not the intended target and that both deaths grew out of the same incident. In the days after the shootings, the Bibb County Sheriff’s Office announced the first arrest: 23-year-old Devantae Lundy of Macon. He was charged with two counts of felony murder and armed robbery in the deaths of Williams and Leonard, and reports said he was being held without bond in the Bibb County jail.
Months later, investigators announced a second arrest, deepening the sense that the case involved more than one participant. Authorities said Kaylen Devon Johnson was the second suspect arrested in connection with the homicides of Williams and Leonard. Reports on that arrest said Johnson was also charged in the separate downtown Macon killing of Danny Thomas Causey, and that he faced three counts of murder along with other charges including participating in street gang activity, influencing a witness, failure to appear, probation violation, and entering auto. Coverage available in the sources located does not clearly spell out a final trial outcome or conviction in Williams’ case, but it does show that authorities identified multiple suspects and publicly tied both Lundy and Johnson to the fatal events surrounding Williams’ death.
