{"id":42712,"date":"2022-10-29T11:24:45","date_gmt":"2022-10-29T15:24:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/?p=42712"},"modified":"2022-10-29T11:25:00","modified_gmt":"2022-10-29T15:25:00","slug":"23-year-old-killed-in-macon-shooting-friday-night","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/?p=42712","title":{"rendered":"23-year-old killed in Macon shooting Friday night"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"\/tag\/Macon\">MACON<\/a> &#8212; The Bibb County Sheriff\u2019s Office is investigating a death that occurred in the 2500 block of Willis Drive just\u00a0before 11:30 p.m.\u00a0Friday night.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Deputies responded to Willis Drive in reference to a person shot. Upon arrival deputies found a 23-year-old man later identified as\u00a0Dakari Faulkner, suffering from a single\u00a0gunshot wound. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Faulkner\u00a0was transported to Atrium Health where he was \u00a0later pronounced dead by medical\u00a0staff. According to Coroner Leon Jones the\u00a0next of kin has been notified. \u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bibb County Sheriff&#8217;s Office Investigators are still determining what lead up to the shooting.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Anyone with information about this incident is urged to contact the Bibb Sheriff\u2019s Office at\u00a0478-751-7500\u00a0or the Macon Regional Crime Stoppers at 1-877-68CRIME.<\/p>\n\n\n\n[mailerlite_form form_id=12]\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MACON &#8212; The Bibb County Sheriff\u2019s Office is investigating a death that occurred in the 2500 block of Willis Drive just\u00a0before 11:30 p.m.\u00a0Friday night. Deputies responded to Willis Drive in reference to a person shot. Upon arrival deputies found a 23-year-old man later identified as\u00a0Dakari Faulkner, suffering from a single\u00a0gunshot wound. Faulkner\u00a0was transported to Atrium [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20033,"comment_status":"open","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":[8476,8475],"class_list":["post-42712","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-crime","tag-bibb-county","tag-macon","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42712","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=42712"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42712\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20033"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}