MACON — A Middle Georgia man arrested in South Carolina earlier this week faces murder charges here in the shooting deaths of three people outside a bar in the early hours of May 18.
Six other people were wounded in gunfire in a parking lot adjacent to the Midtown Daiquiri Bar and Grill on Macon’s west side.
The man arrested, Muchman Bond III, 25, of Macon, was jailed Tuesday on unrelated charges after he was pulled over by police in Columbia, South Carolina, officials said.
He will likely be extradited to Macon in the coming days.
Investigators have yet to publicly divulge further details, but other arrests are expected.
In the immediate aftermath of the midnight shootings, which left a well-traveled thoroughfare a mile or so west of I-475 littered with shell casings, Bibb County Sheriff David Davis said the episode could have “some gang involvement.” He declined to elaborate.
One of the men slain outside the bar, Jedarrius T. Meadows Jr., 28, was himself accused of murder in 2014 in one of the city’s most notorious alleged gang killings.
Meadows, in 2015, stood trial in the shooting death of Damian Bernard “Little Petey” Clayton, 16, in what prosecutors at the time alleged was part of a running feud between rival factions. Repercussions from that now-decade-old case linger. An offshoot gang spawned in the wake of Clayton’s slaying still bears his nickname and is known as “Petey Fam.”
The case against Meadows was dropped after a judge declared a mistrial when some of the jurors, during their deliberations, began arguing and became heated with one another in the jury room.
Meadows remained in jail awaiting a new trial until 2018. It was then that the Georgia Supreme Court ruled that the judge in the case should not have been so quick to end the trial and ordered Meadows released, saying he could not be tried again.
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