{"id":237588,"date":"2025-11-23T18:54:52","date_gmt":"2025-11-23T23:54:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/?p=237588"},"modified":"2025-11-23T18:54:56","modified_gmt":"2025-11-23T23:54:56","slug":"jonesboro-man-found-dead-in-middle-of-road","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/?p=237588","title":{"rendered":"Jonesboro Man Found Dead in Middle of Road"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A Jonesboro man was found dead early Sunday morning in the middle of the road.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>What&#8217;s Happening:<\/strong> Donald Eugene Kelly, 50, was discovered around 3 a.m. near the intersection of Fayetteville Road and Williamson Mill Road. The Georgia Bureau of Investigation is now handling the case at the request of Jonesboro Police.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>What&#8217;s Important:<\/strong> Authorities have not released how Kelly died or what led to his death. The investigation remains active.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>What Happens Next:<\/strong> Anyone with information can contact Jonesboro Police at (770) 478-7407 or the GBI at (770) 388-5019. Tips can be submitted anonymously by calling 1-800-597-TIPS (8477) or online at gbi.georgia.gov\/submit-tips-online.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>The Sources:<\/strong> Georgia Bureau of Investigation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Jonesboro man was found dead early Sunday morning in the middle of the road. What&#8217;s Happening: Donald Eugene Kelly, 50, was discovered around 3 a.m. near the intersection of Fayetteville Road and Williamson Mill Road. The Georgia Bureau of Investigation is now handling the case at the request of Jonesboro Police. What&#8217;s Important: Authorities [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":948,"featured_media":31149,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"newspack_featured_image_position":"above","newspack_post_subtitle":"","newspack_article_summary_title":"Overview:","newspack_article_summary":"","newspack_hide_updated_date":false,"newspack_show_updated_date":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18045],"tags":[19729],"class_list":["post-237588","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-public-safety","tag-fayetteville-road","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237588","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\/948"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=237588"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237588\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31149"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=237588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=237588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=237588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}