The massive manhunt for four Georgia inmate escapees led armed law enforcement teams to the doorstep of a murder suspect, who vanished after he appeared to be kidnapped seven months ago.
U.S. Marshals were “met by gunfire” through a closed apartment door, and backed up by SWAT teams who blasted through the entrance, the Bibb County Sheriff’s Office said Monday evening.
They found a man – later identified as Christian Williams, 23 – “down from a self-inflicted gunshot wound,” the sheriff’s office said.
This is the first time anyone has seen Williams since he was reportedly abducted on March 6 just hours before he was due in court for 2021 murder charges.
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Williams was rushed to a hospital, where he’s in critical condition, according to the Bibb County Sheriff’s Office.
He’s suspected of helping Joey Fournier, 52, Chavis Stokes, 29, Marc K. Anderson, 24, and Johnifer Barnwell, 37, break out of Bibbs County Jail last week.
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The four inmates climbed out of a damaged window in oldest, most deteriorated section of the jail, cut through a fence and made their getaway in a blue Dodge Challenger, according to investigators.
The suspected getaway car was found the parking lot of in a Biomat USA in the city of Macon, about two miles north of the jail, but there’s still no sign of the fugitives, as the search enters week two.
Williams’s involvement in the escape is currently under investigation, the Bibb County Sheriff’s Office said in an official statement.
His girlfriend, who was in the house as the time, was arrested and charged with felony aiding or permitting another to escape lawful custody or confinement.
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Meanwhile, Fournier, Stokes, Anderson and Barnwell remain on the run.
“They could be anywhere,” Bibb County Sheriff said…
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