Keymarion Javontae Manor, a 19-year-old Black male from Macon, was caught in a burst of gunfire on February 23, 2023, at the intersection of Wren Avenue and Heron Street in Macon’s Bird City area. Deputies responded after a ShotSpotter alert and calls for help, and witnesses told investigators that two groups had exchanged gunfire and then scattered. In the immediate chaos, the wounded did not remain at the scene.
Instead, Atrium Health Navicent later notified the Bibb County Sheriff’s Office that two injured young men had arrived for treatment. Manor was reported in critical condition, while 18-year-old Jordon Collins was reported stable with non-life-threatening injuries. By the next day, the shooting had turned fatal: Coroner Leon Jones said Manor died at 2:30 p.m. on February 24 from his injuries.
What began as an aggravated assault investigation quickly focused on two men. On the night of the shooting, investigators identified 27-year-old Raymond Nottingham of Warner Robins and 18-year-old Jadarrious Markell Sears of Macon as suspects in connection with the gunfire. Both were taken in for questioning and then jailed without bond. At first, the charges reflected the early stage of the case: Nottingham was booked on four counts of aggravated assault, along with possession of a Schedule I controlled substance, a parole violation, and traffic charges, while Sears was booked on four counts of aggravated assault and a probation violation misdemeanor. The official picture at that point was of a street shooting with multiple people endangered, a second wounded survivor, and detectives still trying to sort out who fired and why.
As Manor’s death changed the stakes, the case hardened into a homicide prosecution. The Bibb County Sheriff’s Office later said that during a first-appearance hearing on March 2, 2023, both Nottingham and Sears had additional charges added: murder and criminal street gang activity. Local reporting described them as the two suspects investigators tied to the Wren Avenue incident, and both remained held without bond after those upgraded charges. Publicly available reporting I found traces the case through those arrests and charge upgrades, but it does not clearly show a later trial result or conviction in Manor’s death.
The story around Manor’s death carried another grim layer in local coverage. Reporting from Macon outlets said he had himself been facing a separate murder case at the time he was shot, was out on bond, and was supposed to be under house arrest with an ankle monitor. That detail did not change the basic outline of what happened on Wren Avenue: a gun battle erupted, young men were rushed to the hospital instead of staying at the scene, and by the following afternoon Manor was dead. In the public record available online, the named suspects in his killing were Nottingham and Sears, and the charges publicly reported against them grew from aggravated assault to murder and criminal street gang activity after Manor died.
