On the morning of November 5, 2020, gunshots in a Vidalia neighborhood led to the discovery of two men dead in the yard of a home on the 900 block of Brantley Road. Thirty-two-year-old Kevin Loredo and 27-year-old Nicholas Nichols were both found with fatal gunshot wounds; the incident was classified as a double homicide. The Vidalia Police Department and the Georgia Bureau of Investigation opened a joint inquiry, and both bodies were sent to the GBI Crime Lab in Pooler for autopsy.

Investigators identified 25-year-old Lenworth Welsh as involved in an armed confrontation with at least one of the victims. Welsh was at the scene when officers arrived and told police he acted in self-defense; he cooperated with investigators and no charges were filed immediately. A December 2020 arrest record names a Lenworth Jamal Welsh III on a Jefferson County warrant, but it is not confirmed whether that arrest relates to this case. The district attorney’s review and any final charging decisions have not been reported.

Did anyone in the Vidalia area see or hear anything that morning, or have information about Welsh, Loredo, or Nichols that could help clarify what happened?