MACON, Ga. — An Augusta murder suspect has possible ties to two Bibb County shootings, but the sheriff's office says they don't believe the three cases are connected at all.
The suspect is De Quinn Hamlin, 34. He's in the Richmond County jail charged with murder, kidnapping, and other charges.
WRDW in Augusta reports that he's accused of shooting a man in an Augusta mobile home early Sunday. They reported that Hamlin was arrested the next day.
The Bibb County Sheriff's Office says Hamlin's name has come up in a couple of other recent cases.
- They say he is a "person of interest" in an Oct. 10 homicide on Macon's Cherry Avenue. Percy Welch died several days after that shooting.
- Hamlin is also the brother of Teagan Jones. She's the East Macon woman whose Wallace Road home was shot up this week.
Someone fired more than two dozen shots into Jones' home around 1:30 a.m. Monday. That was just a few hours after the Augusta homicide.
- According to a release from the Bibb County Sheriff's Office Friday night, Hamlin is also wanted in a shooting that happened almost 2 hours after the Cherry Avenue shooting. The sheriff's office says 37-year-old Kevin Watons was shot on Napier Avenue near Pio Nono Avenue. Watson was taken to the Medical Center, Atrium Health Navicent where he is listed in critical but stable condition.
13WMAZ asked the Bibb County Sheriff's Office if they were investigating whether the three cases were connected.
They responded, by email, that investigators “do not believe that these cases are related." They declined to explain.
The sheriff's office says both the Cherry Avenue and Wallace Road cases are still under investigation.
13WMAZ also called the Richmond County Sheriff's Office for details on Hamlin and Sunday's homicide; they've not returned our phone calls.