{"id":197939,"date":"2024-05-28T11:06:21","date_gmt":"2024-05-28T15:06:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/?p=197939"},"modified":"2024-05-28T11:24:21","modified_gmt":"2024-05-28T15:24:21","slug":"update-man-who-died-from-severe-head-wound-in-macon-alleyway-identified","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/?p=197939","title":{"rendered":"Update: Man Who Died from Severe Head Wound in Macon Alleyway Identified"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>New Details:<\/strong> The Bibb County Sheriff&#8217;s Office has released the identity of the man found deceased in an alleyway off First Street Lane in downtown Macon with a severe head wound on Sunday. The victim has been identified as 59-year-old Albert Kenneth Knight.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Homicide Confirmed:<\/strong> Further investigation has revealed that Knight&#8217;s death was not an accident, but a homicide. According to investigators, Knight had been struck several times in the head, leading to his death.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Investigation Continues:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Investigators are committed to using the full resources that law enforcement can provide to resolve this case.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Knight&#8217;s body will be taken to the GBI Crime Lab for an autopsy.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Call for Information:<\/strong> The Bibb County Sheriff&#8217;s Office continues to urge anyone with information regarding this investigation to call 478-751-7500 or Macon Regional Crime Stoppers at 1-877-68CRIME.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Details: The Bibb County Sheriff&#8217;s Office has released the identity of the man found deceased in an alleyway off First Street Lane in downtown Macon with a severe head wound on Sunday. The victim has been identified as 59-year-old Albert Kenneth Knight. Homicide Confirmed: Further investigation has revealed that Knight&#8217;s death was not an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":16288,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"newspack_featured_image_position":"","newspack_post_subtitle":"","newspack_article_summary_title":"Overview:","newspack_article_summary":"","newspack_hide_updated_date":false,"newspack_show_updated_date":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[15550],"class_list":["post-197939","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-crime","tag-head-wound","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197939","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=197939"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197939\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16288"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=197939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=197939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=197939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}