Dontavious Ryshaun Holsey, 23, was shot and killed on September 30, 2024, in east Macon near the intersection of Wallace Road and Johnson Road. He was found unresponsive with a gunshot wound, transported to a local hospital, and died shortly after arrival. A 17-year-old was also wounded in the same incident and survived.

Holsey’s family says he had gone to meet people he knew through mutual acquaintances and was allegedly confronted and robbed at gunpoint; the shooting occurred during that encounter. Investigators from the Bibb County Sheriff’s Office identified and later arrested two suspects: 18-year-old Devin DeLoach (arrested in November 2024 with assistance from the Jones County Sheriff’s Office) and 20-year-old Davian Nayshuan Forney (apprehended in April 2025 after a tip and extradited to Macon). Both were charged with murder and aggravated assault; they were released on bond, a development that has deepened the family’s grief.

Known as Tay, Holsey served about a year in the military after high school, worked long 12-hour shifts at Georgia Pacific, and was developing a clothing line called MIP, Money Is Poison. If anyone has information about the shooting or knew Dontavious, please come forward.