Andrew Jackson, a 77-year-old Black male, was fatally shot in Columbus, Georgia, on April 27, 2024, in what unfolded as a sudden and deadly evening shooting along Victory Drive. Reports said gunfire erupted around 7 p.m. in the parking lot of a smoke shop in the 4300 block of Victory Drive. First responders were called to the scene, and Jackson was taken to Piedmont Columbus Regional, where Muscogee County Coroner Buddy Bryan said he was pronounced dead at 7:55 p.m.
His killing was described in local reporting as Columbus’s 15th homicide of 2024 and the city’s fourth homicide for the month of April.
The early public accounts painted the scene in stark, unfinished terms. Police were still working to piece together exactly what happened after the shooting near the business, and the first reports made clear that the case was still developing. What emerged most clearly in those initial hours was the violence of the moment itself: a man gravely wounded in a commercial parking lot on a Saturday evening, the rush to the hospital, and then the confirmation that he did not survive. His obituary later identified him as Andrew Jackson of Phenix City, Alabama, who passed in Columbus that same day.
As for arrests and suspects, the online sources reviewed did not show a publicly announced arrest, named suspect, or filed charge tied specifically to Andrew Jackson’s death. Later Columbus police releases did announce an arrest in a different Victory Drive homicide from the same weekend, the April 28, 2024 killing of Willie Harris Jr. in the 3100 block of Victory Drive, but that was a separate case and not Andrew Jackson’s. Based on the online reporting available, Jackson’s death remained publicly unresolved in the material that could be found, with no identified suspect or court outcome reported in connection with his shooting.
