Murder up in Macon

2020 has been a weird year.  A bad year.  And in Macon – some disturbing numbers might make it one of the worst on record.  The city recorded 31 homicides by July 5th, a total that exceeds the full-year number for every other year in the past decade but one.  It also puts it on pace to surpass the modern-day high of 43 in 1992, (there were 42 in 2018).  Between COVID-19 stress and unemployment and the protests and riots surrounding the BLM movement it’s no secret that 2020 has been a stressful and uneven year, but any way you slice it a record-high murder pace in Bibb County has Macon’s ship SINKING…