Willie Lee Bostick Jr., a 25-year-old Black male from Savannah, Georgia, was killed on the evening of November 16, 2014, in a shooting at the Westlake Apartments on Westlake Avenue. Police said the violence erupted around 6:45 p.m., and when officers responded, his death added another layer of grief and alarm to a city that was already reeling from a bloody weekend. The timing of his killing placed it in the middle of a stretch of shootings that had shaken Savannah so badly that police leadership publicly addressed the fear and frustration spreading through the community.
What comes through most clearly in the public record is how suddenly his life was cut short and how much was left behind. Funeral and memorial notices identify him as Willie Lee Bostick, Jr., born in 1989, and describe a young man whose death left behind parents, siblings, and three children. Those details turn the case from a brief police bulletin into something heavier: a family loss that did not end at the crime scene, but carried forward into funerals, anniversaries, and the lives of the people who knew him best.
The official police account released at the time was spare and urgent. Investigators announced that they were working the homicide, asked for tips, and made clear they needed the public’s help. The next day, Savannah-Chatham Metropolitan Police Chief Joseph Lumpkin said detectives were working around the clock to solve two homicides and several other shootings from that same violent stretch. He also said some victims in that wave of violence were not cooperating with investigators, a detail that helps explain the atmosphere surrounding Bostick’s death: fear, silence, and a city struggling to pull answers from a weekend of gunfire.
As for suspects, arrests, charges, trials, or convictions, the online public sources I found do not identify a named suspect in Willie Lee Bostick Jr.’s killing, and I did not find an accessible public report showing that an arrest was announced in connection with his homicide. The public material that is easy to verify online stops at the initial homicide investigation and the broader warning from police that weekend that they were trying to solve multiple shootings with limited cooperation from witnesses and victims. In that sense, the story that remains online is one of a young father killed in a burst of violence, an investigation opened immediately, and a case that, at least in the public-facing sources available here, does not appear to have reached a publicly documented arrest or conviction.
