MACON — The Bibb County Sheriff’s Office is investigating its fifth homicide in the past eight days.

At about 9:20 p.m. Saturday deputies were called to Glenwood Village Apartments, across from the Wal-Mart on Gray Highway. They found the body of Crystal Walker, 35, said sheriff’s spokeswoman Linda Howard.

She said the victim’s boyfriend, Willis Deterra Roberts, 39, was being sought as a person of interest.

Investigators were initially told by family members that the two were married, Howard said, but that turned out to be incorrect.

An autopsy will be conducted to determine the cause of death. The two shared the apartment where the body was found.

The slaying was the 20th homicide of the year, the fifth in the past eight days and the third Saturday.

Early Saturday deputies responded to a shooting death on Macon Avenue that was determined to be a domestic incident. At about noon, a decomposed body was found in abandoned apartments on Roy Street. Coroner Leon Jones initially said at that scene that it could not be determined whether that was a homicide due to the state of the body.

However, by the time he arrived at the Gray Highway scene later in the day, he said additional information had led him to conclude the Roy Street case was a homicide. He declined to elaborate.

A man was shot to death in front of the Sunoco station on Jeffersonville Road on Aug. 28, and another was shot to death in the parking lot of Club Status early Wednesday.

As he stood with blue lights flashing behind him at Glenwood Apartments just before midnight Saturday, with grieving family members nearby, Jones had some strong words when asked his thoughts on the events of the past week.

“Instead of worrying about the Georgia flag and the Confederate monuments, we need to worry about what’s really affecting the entire community, and that’s homicide,” he said.

Jones said the victim’s sister discovered her body Saturday, and it was unclear how long she had been dead.

Family members at the scene declined to comment.

Roberts was described as a black male, five feet, 11 inches tall, weighing about 190 pounds with a low haircut and a goatee.

Macon Telegraph