Sixteen-year-old Nathaniel Alexander Elder was shot and killed in Macon, Georgia on the evening of December 14, 2022. He had just returned that night from Albany, where he was enrolled in a Job Corps program studying agriculture and working toward his GED. Nathaniel hoped to become an on-the-road truck driver and his family had sent him away seeking safer opportunities.

Shots were fired in the 3800 block of Log Cabin Drive near the Green Meadows apartments shortly before 9:00 p.m. Nathaniel was found with gunshot wounds to his back and was taken to Atrium Health, where he was pronounced dead shortly after arrival. The Bibb County Sheriff’s Office opened a homicide investigation; no arrests or suspects have been publicly identified and the investigation remains active.

Did anyone in Macon see Nathaniel that night or have information about activity around Log Cabin Drive after 9:00 p.m. on December 14, 2022?