Martavis McKinney, 28, was shot and killed on August 12, 2025, at The Lakes Apartments on Warm Springs Road in Columbus, Georgia. Officers responding to a shooting found McKinney with a gunshot wound to his left shoulder blade; the Muscogee County coroner pronounced him dead at the scene at 3:21 p.m. The Columbus Police Department’s Violent Crimes Unit describes the incident as stemming from a domestic-related dispute.

Also injured at the scene was McKinney’s girlfriend, Shayona Monique Jones, who was treated at a local hospital and released. McKinney, originally from Early County, was remembered in an obituary that notes his recent baptism and his love for his seven-year-old daughter.

Does anyone have information about the couple, their movements that day, or about Martavis’s life in Columbus that could help investigators?