On the late morning of Sunday, February 11, 2024, 33-year-old Octavius Marshun McDougal was found with severe trauma to his torso after multiple callers reported a shooting in the 500 block of Moody Drive in Valdosta, Georgia. Officers and EMS transported him to a local hospital, but he died of his injuries and his body was sent to the Georgia Bureau of Investigations Medical Examiner’s Office for an autopsy. The Valdosta Police Department opened a homicide investigation and treated the shooting as an isolated incident while canvassing the neighborhood and interviewing potential witnesses.

Detectives identified a person of interest and, after nearly two months of investigation, obtained arrest warrants for 22-year-old Zykenzie Jeremiah Calhoun of Lakeland on April 1, 2024. Calhoun was located and taken into custody the next morning without incident; he was found carrying a firearm that had been illegally modified with an automatic switch. He was booked in Lowndes County Jail on charges including murder during the commission of a felony, aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, and possession of a firearm during the commission of a felony, with additional charges possible as the inquiry continues.

Does anyone have information about McDougal, the 500 block of Moody Drive, or movements in the area that morning that could help investigators?