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Vernon Shoats Sr

Case from Macon, GA dated Jan 22, 2017

Victim Details

Vernon Shoats Sr

Male

Black / African American

Macon

GA

2017-01-22

43

Vernon

Shoats Sr

07/15/2026

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In the winter of 2017, the life of 43-year-old Vernon Shoats Sr., a male resident of Macon, Georgia, came to a tragic end. On the evening of January 22nd, deputies from the Bibb County Sheriff's Office responded to a call of a person shot at the Hidden Lake Apartments. Upon their arrival, they discovered Shoats on the floor of his apartment with multiple gunshot wounds. He was pronounced dead at the scene shortly before 7 p.m. His death marked the first homicide of the year in Macon.

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  • WGXA: Deputy Coroner: Macon man shot by wife
  • Macon woman charged in husband's shooting death released on bond
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