‘I shot my son,’ man tells officer directing church traffic

A Woodstock man is in custody after he allegedly shot and killed his stepson on Sunday, the Cherokee County Sheriff’s Office said.

Carl Lewis pulled onto Neese Road in front of the First Baptist Church of Woodstock about 1 p.m. He stopped Woodstock police officers who were directing traffic and confessed to a crime, Cherokee sheriff’s Deputy Joshua Watkins said.

Lewis said he shot his son at 512 Mirramont Place and didn’t know if he killed him.

Mirramont Place, which is located off Bells Ferry Road in Woodstock, is about 15 minutes away from the church.

A sheriff’s deputy took Lewis to the south police precinct for questioning.

When officers arrived at the Mirramont Place home, they opened a window and found Bryce McCallum, 19, dead of an apparent gunshot wound to the head. McCallum, who Watkins said was Lewis’s stepson, was found in a chair.

The young man had just finished his freshman year of college, a neighbor told Channel 2 Action News.

Lewis was taken to the Cherokee County Adult Detention Center on charges of murder, aggravated assault and possession of a firearm in the commission of a felony. He has no bond.

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