On Thanksgiving morning 2020, a night out in downtown Macon turned deadly when 22-year-old Jhacaya Mann was shot and killed outside the Thirsty Turtle bar on Cherry Street. The shooting occurred about 2:45 a.m. on Friday, November 27, 2020, after a fight inside the bar; investigators reported the confrontation involved 29-year-old Durand Marcel Faulk, who suffered a cut to his face.

Authorities say Faulk allegedly retrieved a firearm and fired into the crowd gathered outside, killing Mann and leaving others wounded. The episode left six people shot and two others stabbed. Bibb County deputies arrested Faulk on December 1, 2020, charging him with murder and four counts of aggravated assault. A second suspect, 22-year-old Damion Jarrod Tuff, was arrested in February 2021 and charged with murder and aggravated assault.

By November 2021 prosecutors reported neither man had been indicted, citing backlogs at the state crime lab.