In the early hours of September 2, 2015, a dispute at Club Status on Pio Nono Avenue in Macon, Georgia, tragically escalated, leading to the death of 29-year-old Aquallo Davis Jr. Davis, a Black male, was in the parking lot of the nightclub when a fight that began inside the establishment spilled out into the open. Amid the chaos, gunshots were fired, and Davis was struck. He was pronounced dead at the scene at 3:18 a.m.
The Bibb County Sheriff's Office immediately launched a homicide investigation. Initially, investigators were searching for a Black male driving a dark-colored Jeep Grand Cherokee. They later identified the vehicle as a 2000s model, smoke-gray Jeep Cherokee with a brush guard, occupied by four males. Descriptions of two of the occupants were released, noting that the driver had dreadlocks and was wearing a baseball cap, and one of the passengers also had dreadlocks and gold teeth.
A day after the shooting, authorities identified 24-year-old Gregory Bernard Staten Jr., a Black male, as the primary suspect and issued a warrant for his arrest on the charge of murder. Staten was described as being approximately 6 feet 1 inch tall, weighing around 190 pounds, with a low-styled haircut. He was last seen in the smoke-gray Jeep Cherokee. After a brief search, Gregory Staten Jr. turned himself over to the authorities.
In January 2016, a judge denied bond for Staten, and he remained in custody. While the outcome of the murder trial for the death of Aquallo Davis is not publicly available in the searched records, court documents indicate that Gregory Bernard Staten Jr. has been involved in other violent crimes in the years following his 2015 arrest. He faced charges in separate incidents, including another shooting and an instance of shooting at a law enforcement officer during a car chase. The final disposition of the murder charge in connection with the death of Aquallo Davis remains unclear from the available online sources.
