A graduation party on Williamson Road in Macon, Georgia, turned deadly in the early hours of May 17, 2025. Deputies responding at about 2:30 a.m. went to 1524 Williamson Road after reports of gunfire and found multiple people shot. Jaurice Markel Haywood, 25, was pronounced dead at the scene by Deputy Coroner Ronnie Miley; two other men, later identified as Jatorian Burton and Tyress Rivers, were wounded and survived.

The incident was treated from the start as an active homicide investigation as detectives tried to reconstruct what happened after the party erupted into violence. Investigators later identified 30-year-old Atraraus Marrell Rouse as a suspect and reported an arrest on August 18, 2025. Rouse was taken into custody in Jones County by the U.S. Marshals Southeast Regional Fugitive Task Force and held on murder and aggravated assault charges without bond.

If anyone attended the graduation party at 1524 Williamson Road or has information about the shooting, please come forward with what was seen or heard that night.