MACON, Ga. — The police tape and flashing lights are gone now from the scene on Ferguson Street.
The people who live there, though, aren't, and they're worried.
"It ain't my child, but I'm still going through it," said Tony Jenkins. "That could have been one of us in these houses. Bullets go through these little walls easy."
Jenkins lives in the tiny Ferguson Street neighborhood. It's the same 100-yard stretch of asphalt where the Bibb County Sheriff's Office (BSO) says 19-year-old Jahfari Bullard was found shot late Wednesday night.
Jenkins and his neighbor T.D. Felder say they heard the shot.
"It sounded like a thump," they both agreed.
Bibb County Coroner Leon Jones says Bullard was pronounced dead at the hospital early Thursday morning.
His was not the only violent death in Bibb County this week.
"It's a black eye," said Jones. "Last year, we had 25 homicides. Year before last, we had 42. We're at three in three days in the beginning of the year. It don't make any sense just to kill somebody."
BSO says a day before Bullard was killed, somebody fatally shot 36-year-old Norbert Volmar to death on Roy Street.
A day before that, 37-year-old Michael Lewis was killed in a north Macon yard.
"It's a bad start," said Captain Shermaine Jones. "That's not how we want to start the year, that's not how we want our community to be viewed."
Jones leads BSO's criminal investigation division. According to him, none of the killings appear to be connected.
However, he said his department is not yet releasing any concrete details on possible suspects or motives for the three cases.
"We've had information come in going in many directions," he said. "Drugs has been one of them, but there's nothing concrete on that. Right now, we're still trying to dig and find out what we can."
Back in the Ferguson Street neighborhood, the issue was more straightforward.
"We're really tired of killing," said Felder. "We gotta stop that."
When 13WMAZ asked Captain Jones if the ongoing BSO deputy shortage made it harder for his investigators to do their jobs when they get major cases back to back to back like this, he said he'd rather have the sheriff answer that question.
The sheriff's office is asking for any information you might have about any one of these shootings, no matter how insignificant it might seem.
To get in touch with them, call Macon Regional Crimestoppers at 1-877-68CRIME.
"We read every tip that comes in," said Jones.
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