3 dead, 6 wounded in mass shooting outside Macon bar early Sunday

No fewer than 50 spent shell casings littered the scene, which stretched into the lot of a dental office next door in a business district along Log Cabin Drive, a main north-south thoroughfare about a mile east of I-475.

Bibb Coroner Leon Jones said the three people killed were men, all from Macon: Javonta Faulks, 32; Jedarrius Meadows Jr., 30; and Javarsia Meadows, 21.

Jones said the six surviving victims were taken to a city hospital. As of about 2:30 a.m., one of those victims was in surgery and the other five were being treated in the hospital’s emergency room, the coroner said.

Credit: Joe Kovac Jr.

Credit: Joe Kovac Jr.

A 27-year-old woman who was inside the bar when the gunfire began said she was told that there was arguing outside “and then shooting started and people (who’d been shot) started coming in.”

The woman, who declined to give her name, said, “Everybody had to rush to the kitchen.”

She still had blood on her hands two hours after the shooting from trying to stop the bleeding of one victim who’d been shot in his neck.

“I tended to him, and then shots started ringing out again,” she said, adding that people were “running and ducking.”

It was about 3 a.m., nearly three hours after the bloodshed, when Bibb Sheriff David Davis walked up to the sister of a deceased victim. She had shown up to see what was the matter.

The sister, soon wailing in grief, collapsed on a sidewalk. Some women with her broke down crying.

“When we first got here, it was quite crowded and quite confusing,” the sheriff later told The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. “We’re still trying to piece it all together. … We don’t know what the catalyst was that sparked this.”