On July 2, 2024, Ceon Ulmer, 38, was found unresponsive in the front yard of a residence in the 1800 block of Warren Street in Augusta, Georgia, with at least one gunshot wound to his upper body. He was pronounced dead at the scene. The Richmond County Sheriff’s Office opened a homicide investigation and quickly identified a suspect the same day.

Authorities named 40-year-old Joshua Wadley as the person they were seeking in connection with the fatal shooting. A manhunt followed for several months. On January 13, 2025, the Richmond County Sheriff’s Office Crime Suppression Team and the U.S. Marshal’s Southeastern Fugitive Task Force located and arrested Wadley on the 700 block of Forest Ridge Place; he was taken into custody without incident and charged with Murder and Possession of a Firearm During the Commission of a Crime.

What details about Ulmer’s last hours or who else might have been at the Warren Street residence could help explain what happened?