Jerry Lewis Burke Jr., a 34-year-old Black man from Macon, was killed on August 30, 2023, in a daytime shooting outside the Circle K at 4314 Pio Nono Avenue. According to the Bibb County Sheriff's Office and local news reports, deputies were sent to the store at about 2:17 p.m. on a report of a person shot. When they arrived, they found Burke unresponsive with a gunshot wound and tried to give aid, but he died at the scene.
The killing unfolded in the hard glare of an ordinary afternoon, at a neighborhood gas station where people stop for fuel, drinks, and quick errands, and in a matter of moments that routine setting became the last place Burke would be seen alive.
In the days after the shooting, investigators publicly identified Keenan Devonte Andrews of Macon as the person they wanted to question in the case. The sheriff's office said Andrews was being sought as a person of interest and released details about him and the car he was believed to be driving, a gold Ford Crown Victoria. That public appeal suggested the case did not move instantly from scene to arrest; instead, it carried on with the tension that often follows a public killing, with detectives asking for help and a name beginning to circulate through Macon as they worked to close the distance between suspicion and custody.
That break came on December 1, 2023, when the U.S. Marshals Southeast Regional Task Force and the Bibb County Sheriff's Office SWAT Unit took Andrews into custody at a residence in the 1500 block of Williamson Road. Authorities said he was arrested in connection with Burke's death and booked on a murder charge. The sheriff's office also said Andrews was wanted on several other matters at the time of his arrest, including warrants tied to a Superior Court probation violation involving robbery, simple battery, and multiple counts of cruelty to children. Officials said he was taken to the Bibb County Law Enforcement Center and did not have bond.
Publicly available reporting that I located is clear about the shooting, the search for Andrews, and his eventual arrest, but it does not show a later confirmed outcome such as a trial, conviction, or sentencing in Burke's case. So the clearest verified arc, based on the available online record, is that Burke was shot to death outside the Pio Nono Circle K, investigators later named Andrews as the man they wanted to question, and by early December he had been arrested and charged with murder. Beyond that, the public trail in the sources I found grows quiet, leaving the story suspended between the violence of that afternoon and whatever courtroom ending may have come later but was not documented in the reporting I was able to verify.
