Charles Lee Workman Sr., a 65-year-old White man, was killed in Brunswick, Georgia, on June 17, 2017, in a case that unfolded in the quiet early-morning hours at a home on Stafford Avenue. Police were sent there at about 5:50 a.m. after a caller reported four men loitering in a yard. When officers arrived, they found Workman inside the residence, lying on the living room floor with a gunshot wound to the abdomen.
He was taken to Southeast Georgia Regional Medical Center, but he died from his injuries, turning what began as a disturbance call into a fatal family tragedy.
What made the case especially stark was how quickly investigators said it centered on someone already there. Public reporting identified Charles Workman Jr., the victim’s 23-year-old son, as the lone suspect. According to those reports, he told responding officers that he had shot his father, and he was arrested at the scene. In the first accounts released that day, authorities said they had not announced a motive, leaving the story suspended in that grim and familiar space where a violent act is known, but the reason behind it remains unspoken.
The arrest was only the beginning of the criminal case. By early July 2017, reporting said a Glynn County grand jury had indicted Charles Workman Jr. on malice murder, felony murder, domestic aggravated assault, and two counts of possession of a firearm during the commission of a felony. That indictment suggested prosecutors were treating the killing not as a momentary unexplained shooting alone, but as a serious domestic homicide backed by multiple felony allegations. In the public reporting available online, those are the clearest formal charges tied to the death of Charles Lee Workman Sr.
Later public references indicate the case continued beyond the initial arrest, including mention of a plea deal being rejected, but the most consistently accessible online sources chiefly document the shooting, the son’s admission to police, the arrest, and the subsequent indictment. Taken together, the case reads as a deeply intimate killing that shattered a Brunswick household just before Father’s Day, with the victim found inside his own home and the suspect identified by authorities as his own son almost immediately after officers stepped onto the scene.
