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Neighbor urges law enforcement to 'crack down' as Bibb passes 2017 homicide total

Marion Davis was watching a football game on TV when gunfire erupted outside his home and a man was found with multiple gunshot wounds in the street

After a Saturday night shooting off Houston Avenue, Macon-Bibb County has now surpassed last year's homicide total and there's still more than three months left in 2018.

On Monday afternoon, crime scene tape stashed in a dumpster blew in the wind outside a home on Burke Street where 30-year old Michael Antwan Chapman was shot and killed this weekend.

Neighbor Marion Davis lives around the corner. He was home watching a football game Saturday night at the time that shots rang out.

"My friend came and told me she heard a bunch of shooting and said, 'Let's go down there.' I said no, not me. I don't want to catch a stray bullet," said Davis.

Investigators found Chapman in the street with multiple gunshot wounds. He was taken to Navicent Health, where he died -- making him Macon-Bibb's 31st homicide victim since New Year's Day.

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"I don't know what we're going to do to be able to control this gun thing," said Davis.

By the time deputies arrived at the scene Saturday night, the suspect had already left and now investigators are looking to question 18-year old Dequavious Howard.

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The Bibb County Sheriff's Office says Howard was involved in a 2017 shootout at the Sunoco Gas Station off Houston Avenue.

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A small memorial for Chapman is all that remains on Burke Street and Davis says he's calling on law enforcement to 'crack down' on all the recent violence otherwise he says "it will just continue."

Sgt. Linda Howard says details on what led to the shooting are still under investigation.

If you have information on Dequavious Howard's location, you can call the Bibb County Sheriff's Office at 478-751-7500.

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