Marcus Jones was 32 when he was shot and killed in Columbus, Georgia, on the evening of December 6, 2021. Police were called about 9:45 p.m. to the 600 block of 23rd Street; officers found Jones suffering from a gunshot wound and the Muscogee County Coroner pronounced him dead at the scene.

Columbus Police homicide investigators say the shooting grew out of an altercation, but the nature of that dispute and the events directly leading to the fatal shooting have not been released. Detectives canvassed the neighborhood for witnesses and evidence, and the case remains an open, unsolved homicide with no arrests or publicly identified suspects.

If anyone saw or heard anything in the 600 block of 23rd Street on December 6, 2021, or has information that could help bring answers for Marcus Jones’s family, please contact Columbus police.