In the early hours of March 24, 2024, police in Millen, Georgia, responded to a shooting at the Annie P. Chance Veteran’s Center on Acorn Avenue. Officers arriving around 1:45 a.m. found two people dead: Tyrell Brown, a 28-year-old Black man from nearby Garfield, and Maxine Jones, a 48-year-old mother of eight from Millen. Both were pronounced dead at the scene; autopsies at the GBI Crime Lab later determined both died from gunshot wounds.

Investigators linked a second shooting that occurred hours later on Wasdin Street to the double homicide. The probe quickly identified 28-year-old Raheem Whitfield of Waynesboro as a suspect; he turned himself in and was arrested. A grand jury later returned indictments that included malice murder and felony murder counts. A second person, Shenice Thompson, was also indicted and arranged to surrender to authorities.

The GBI medical examiner testified that a single bullet struck Brown and then Jones, killing both. Prosecutors said the attack followed an earlier altercation at a convenience store; the defense claimed self-defense, with witness testimony conflicting on whether Brown had a gun. Does anyone have information about Brown’s movements that night or about the reported convenience store altercation?