A Georgia man has died after he wounded himself when police officers appeared at his door to question him about four escaped inmates, authorities said.
Bibb County deputies said Christian Demond Williams, 23, died Tuesday morning at a Macon hospital. The U.S. Marshals Fugitive Task Force found Williams at a Macon apartment after investigators got a tip that he might have information about four men who escaped Oct. 16 from the Bibb County jail.
Bibb County deputies said another man has been arrested in a car theft believed to be connected to the jailbreak.
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When task force agents arrived Monday, a bullet was fired through the door of the apartment, Bibb County Sheriff David Davis has told reporters.
After a SWAT team was called, a woman inside the apartment led officers to Williams, who was lying wounded. She said Williams had shot himself, deputies said. He was taken to a Macon hospital in critical condition. Davis said no officers fired their guns.
Bibb County Coroner Leon Jones said Tuesday that Williams died from a single gunshot wound and that he had ruled Williams’ death a suicide. Jones said the Georgia Bureau of Investigation is conducting an inquiry because police officers were involved and performing an autopsy on Williams’ body on Wednesday.
Williams had been missing since March 5, the night before he was supposed to be tried on a murder charge in the 2021 shooting death of a man at a Macon convenience store. A security camera showed Williams being attacked by two other men on the front porch of his home. Davis and District Attorney Anita Howard both expressed doubt that Williams had truly been kidnapped.
Bibb County deputies on Tuesday arrested Jakaylen Billy Ray Williams, charging him with auto theft, saying he stole a Dodge Challenger on from a rental car agency on Oct. 9.
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