Deuntay Lashavi Hicks was 21 when he was found fatally shot at the Woods on Napier Apartments, also called North Napier Apartments, at 4017 Napier Avenue in Macon, Georgia. The call to the Macon-Bibb 911 Center came in on January 28, 2022 at about 11:34 a.m.; deputies found Hicks unresponsive in an apartment doorway and the Bibb County Coroner pronounced him dead at 12:30 p.m. He had sustained multiple gunshot wounds.

Bibb County deputies opened a homicide investigation. At the time of these reports, investigators had not released a motive or identified any suspects, and no arrests had been publicly announced. Anyone with information about the shooting is asked to contact the Bibb County Sheriff’s Office or Macon Regional Crimestoppers.