On February 2, 2023, 18-year-old Syee Devon Havior was killed in a targeted home invasion at his family’s residence on Black Springs Road in Milledgeville, Georgia. Havior, a Baldwin High School senior who had recently become a father, was shot multiple times after at least one person entered the home shortly after midnight. Family members were present; they were not physically harmed. His father, Otis Havior, said he heard his son call for him, followed by several gunshots. Brothers attempted to render aid before Syee was taken to a hospital, where he later died.

Investigators from the Baldwin County Sheriff’s Office and the Georgia Bureau of Investigation linked the attack to a burglary at the same residence a few weeks earlier, during which firearms had been stolen. Multiple people were arrested and charged in connection with the killing. What details about the motive or sequence of events remain unclear to the public?