Eric Council, a 37-year-old Black man, was killed late on September 14, 2024, in Hephzibah, Georgia, after gunfire erupted on the 2400 block of Carroll Drive, a dead-end street off Windsor Spring Road. Reports say police and deputies were called just after 11 p.m. to a shooting scene where Council and another adult woman had both been hit. Paramedics rushed him to Wellstar MCG Health, but he was pronounced dead at 11:44 p.m. The second victim survived the shooting, though authorities did not publicly release her name or describe her condition in detail.
In the first wave of reporting, the case moved quickly from a chaotic late-night shooting to an arrest. Constance Jenkins, 38, of Hephzibah, was identified by authorities as the suspect and was arrested in connection with Council’s death. She was charged with murder, aggravated assault, and possession of a firearm during the commission of a crime. Reports from the time said she was being held without bond at the Charles B. Webster Detention Center, giving the case the shape of a domestic or personal tragedy even as investigators had not publicly explained how she and Council knew one another.
What emerged from the available coverage was a grim, close-quarters scene: a neighborhood call for help, two victims found wounded, and a man who did not survive the trip to the hospital. The official response involved both the Hephzibah Police Department and the Richmond County Sheriff’s Office, underscoring that the shooting immediately drew serious law-enforcement attention. The coroner’s office scheduled an autopsy, but public reporting available online did not appear to reveal a fuller motive or a detailed account of what led up to the gunfire.
As for suspects, arrests, and later case developments, the online reporting consistently points to Jenkins as the person arrested in the killing, and the publicly available accounts reviewed do not show any additional suspects being named. They also do not clearly document a later trial, plea, or conviction in the sources that were readily available online. So the clearest public picture remains that Eric Council was fatally shot that night in Hephzibah, another woman was wounded, and Constance Jenkins was arrested and charged soon afterward as the lone named suspect in the case.
