Jabyo Lamar Bell, a 30-year-old Black man from Waycross, was killed on December 15, 2019, after gunfire at Amberwood Apartments on East Baker Highway in Douglas. Police found Bell behind one of the apartment buildings with multiple gunshot wounds; he was taken to Coffee Regional Medical Center and did not survive.

A second man, Onterio Mucho Gotti Wilson, 27, of Douglas, was also brought to the same hospital with multiple gunshot wounds. Within days investigators made arrests tied not only to the shooting but to actions that followed. On December 19, 2019, Wilson was arrested on tampering with evidence and possession of a firearm by a convicted felon charges linked to Bell’s death. Investigators later sought Abraham Abe Gordon of Douglas on a tampering with evidence warrant.

On February 26, 2020, detectives added a voluntary manslaughter charge against Wilson. Gordon was stopped the same day, gave a false name, fled on foot and was identified and jailed while awaiting extradition on the tampering charge. The case involves a wounded man later charged and another person accused of interfering with evidence; many questions remain about exactly what happened that afternoon at Amberwood Apartments.

Did anyone in Douglas see or hear anything that afternoon at Amberwood Apartments?