On the morning of Wednesday, December 17, 2025, 18-year-old DeKerrio Jamontez Cobb was shot and killed at the Citgo gas station in the 1900 block of Shurling Drive in Macon, Georgia. The shooting occurred just before noon; dispatchers received a call reporting gunfire at approximately 11:57 a.m. Surveillance footage reportedly captured Cobb opening the shop door and being shot by an individual who was exiting the building. Deputies found him unresponsive from gunshot wounds and Deputy Coroner LuAnn Stone pronounced him dead at the scene.

Investigators say the shooter had been inside the store moments earlier purchasing candy and a snack, then left on foot heading west while holding a firearm. A person of interest seen in surveillance images was described as wearing a gray zipper jacket with a black top underneath. By the evening of December 18, 2025, 17-year-old Brandon Robinson turned himself in to the Bibb County Sheriff’s Office and was arrested and charged with murder and possession of a firearm during the commission of a felony; he was denied bond in magistrate court. Authorities had not publicly disclosed a motive or whether Cobb and the suspect knew each other prior to the shooting.

Cobb, born in 2007 to Ashley Cobb and Devonte Allen, had recently started a lawn care business called Chop & Blow and was remembered by family and friends as an aspiring entrepreneur. Does anyone in East Macon have information about what happened at that Citgo on Shurling Drive?