Artice Pettigrew, 52, was killed on Saturday, December 23, 2023, at a family property on Fort Hill Street in Macon, Georgia that had long hosted family gatherings. The killing followed a dispute that began between Pettigrew’s cousin, Ladonta Lamont Solomon, and Solomon’s son. Pettigrew reportedly confronted Solomon about the earlier argument. While Pettigrew was on his phone walking alongside a pickup truck, Solomon allegedly pointed a gun and fired.

A nearby church surveillance camera captured a person falling from the back of the truck, people scattering, then three individuals lifting the body and placing it back into the truck. Deputies who first responded to a shooting report that night found no victim; Solomon, present at the scene with a busted lip, told deputies someone had been shot then became uncooperative and requested a lawyer. Deputies returned the next day and, after a family member said relatives were afraid to speak, found Pettigrew’s body hidden under a tarp in the bed of his own truck.

Investigators charged 46-year-old Ladonta Lamont Solomon with murder and arrested his 70-year-old father, Charles Edward Solomon, and 25-year-old son, Tyric Deonte Solomon, on charges of concealing a death. Ladonta Solomon was released on a $100,000 bond and placed on house arrest, a decision that deeply upset Pettigrew’s family. Does anyone have information about the events at the Fort Hill Street home that night?