On the afternoon of Sunday, October 1, 2023, officers responded to a shots-fired call on the 600 block of East Sultana Drive in Fitzgerald, Georgia. At about 2:30 p.m. they found a white Kia Sportage stopped at a stop sign; inside the driver’s seat was 31-year-old Markevios D. Jenkins of Fitzgerald, unresponsive with multiple gunshot wounds. He was pronounced dead at the scene.

The Fitzgerald Police Department asked the Georgia Bureau of Investigation to lead the homicide probe. Investigators identified several suspects; on October 4, 2023, the GBI and Fitzgerald police took two 17-year-old Fitzgerald residents, Shannon Demond Belmer Jr. and Anthony McCray, into custody. Two additional suspects already in custody on other charges were later identified, bringing the total charged in Jenkins’s death to four. The case file was forwarded to the Cordele Judicial Circuit District Attorney’s Office for prosecution.

Does anyone in Fitzgerald have information about Jenkins, the shooting, or the people involved that could help the prosecution?