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Vernard Lamar Mays

Case from Macon, GA dated Oct 27, 2015

Victim Details

Vernard Lamar Mays

Male

Black / African American

Macon

GA

2015-10-27

23

Vernard

Lamar Mays

07/10/2026

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In the quiet of a Macon, Georgia evening on October 27, 2015, the life of 23-year-old Vernard Lamar Mays, a male employee of the Bibb County Sheriff's Office, was tragically cut short in a hail of gunfire on his own doorstep. The events leading to his death began earlier in the day with a nearby car accident. Following the crash, an individual involved, a member of the Crips street gang, decided to hide a gun in the yard of the home Mays shared with his mother, a 911 dispatcher.

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  • macon: Second man arrested in shooting that killed Bibb sheriff's clerk
  • Vernard Lamar Mays, age 23 - National Gun Violence Memorial
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