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UPDATE: Bibb deputies looking for man in west Macon shooting death

Bibb Coroner Leon Jones say it's Macon's 40th homicide of 2020

MACON, Ga. — UPDATE, 9:30 p.m.:

Bibb deputies are asking for your help in finding a person of interest in the shooting death of 28-year-old Milton Dwayne Sanford.

According to a news release from the Bibb County Sheriff's Office, deputies are looking for 27-year-old Larry Howard Jr. in Sanford's death. The release says he is known to frequent the east Macon and Bloomfield area.

If you have any information, you can call the Bibb County Sheriff’s Office at 478-751-7500 or the “on-call investigator” at 478-951-6896 or Macon Regional CrimeStoppers at 1-877-68CRIME. 

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The Bibb County Sheriff’s Office is investigating after a man was shot to death Monday morning.

According to Bibb Coroner Leon Jones, it happened in the 1000-block of Thomas Place. That’s in west Macon off of Edna Place.

He says it happened just before 11 a.m. Monday. 

The sheriff's office says a call for a person down came in around that time. When deputies got to the scene, they found a man in a vehicle suffering from a single gunshot wound.

He was pronounced deceased at the scene. The victim was identified as 28-year-old Milton Sanford, of Jones County.

Jones adds that this death marks Macon-Bibb County’s 40th homicide of 2020.

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