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'He was a very, very good guy:' Friend reacts to 22-year-old shot and killed in west Macon

Two different shootings down the street from each other left 22-year-old Deroderick Ridley dead and 25-year-old Gerald Pennyman in critical condition

MACON, Ga. — A blood stained parking lot and bullets in the side of the building is what one woman who works at this Metro PCS found when she pulled in Sunday morning. Not only that, she knew the people involved.

"Blood is right here, blood is right here. I'm not sure what victim's blood that is, but that's blood right here," Lovely Joe said.

Joe takes a look at what's left of the crime scene from Saturday night in the parking lot at the intersection of Log Cabin Drive and Hillcrest Road.

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"You'll find a couple of bullets in the wall over here at the barbershop right here, there's one right here, there's one bullet," Joe said.

Around 11 p.m. Saturday, Sergeant Linda Howard with the Bibb County Sheriff's Office says they responded to a call that two men were shot, one of them being 22 year-old Deroderick Ridley. Ridley was transported to the Medical Center, Navicent Health, but later passed away.

"He was a very, very good guy, and I believe he was at the wrong place at the wrong time in this situation, cause that shouldn't have happened to him, he's a very good guy, he's not that type of guy," Joe said.

Joe also knew the other victim, 25-year-old Marquise Simmons, who the Bibb County Sheriff's Office reported is in stable condition at Navicent.

"He goes by 'Man Man,' he's a very good guy, got a couple of children, you know, he's a father just like D was, a very good father," Joe said.

This was the second of two active crime scenes of the night. 

Deputies responded to call an hour earlier about loud music at a block party on Suzanne Drive that turned into four people being shot, leaving three with non-life threatening injuries and 25 year-old Gerald Pennyman in critical condition.

"Sad to say, but you just can't go no where and have fun, because people don't know how to act," Joe said.

As of now, Sgt. Howard says they don't believe the two cases are connected.

A press release from the sheriff's office says the suspects of both shootings had already fled the scenes before deputies arrived. Anyone with information can call the Bibb County Sheriff's Office at 478-751-7500 or Macon Regional Crimestoppers at 1-877-68CRIME.

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