MACON, Ga. — Correction: The Bibb County Sheriff's Office news release from Thursday morning said the two men exchanged gunfire. Sheriff David Davis says investigators now believe that Tennyson did NOT fire any shots.
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A 24-year-old man is charged with murder after a fatal shooting lat Wednesday night.
According to a news release from the Bibb County Sheriff's Office, Donavon Scott-Sinclair is accused of killing 25-year-old Devontae Tennyson in a parking lot near Midtown Daiquiri Bar & Grill on Log Cabin Drive.
Witnesses reported to deputies that Tennyson and private security guards got into an argument and then Scott-Sinclair fired several shots at him.
According to Macon-Bibb County Coroner Leon Jones, Tennyson was pronounced dead just after midnight at the Medical Center, Navicent Health.
Jones says bullets hit Tennyson several times in the chest, stomach, and side.
Jones and family members say that Tennyson worked as a Bibb County 911 Dispatcher.
The Bibb County Sheriff's Office says the private security guards were employed by Midtown Daiquiri Bar & Grill.
Around 8 a.m., the restaurant posted to Facebook calling the fatal shooting "one of my biggest fears being in this business."
The shooting is under investigation and investigators are interviewing possible witnesses, as well as the bar's security guards.
If you've got information about the shooting, you can call the Bibb County Sheriff’s Office at 478-751-7500 or Macon Regional Crime Stoppers at 1-877-68CRIME.
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