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Ricky Smith

Case from Macon, GA dated Sep 05, 2015

Victim Details

Ricky Smith

Male

Black / African American

Macon

GA

2015-09-05

53

Ricky

Smith

06/30/2026

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Ricky Smith, a 53-year-old Black man from Macon, was killed in the early morning hours of September 5, 2015, at a home on Macon Avenue where authorities said he lived with his girlfriend. Deputies were sent there at about 1:03 a.m. after Donna Jackson, then 45, called and said she had shot her boyfriend in self-defense. When officers arrived, they found Smith with a gunshot wound to the left side of his chest. He was taken to the Medical Center, Navicent Health, but he did not survive. The coron ...
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  • macon: Girlfriend charged with murder in Macon man’s shooting death
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