Columbus police investigate fatal Thanksgiving shooting on Cusseta Road
Thanksgiving was almost over Thursday night when Columbus police were called to yet another fatal shooting.
It was 12 minutes before midnight when officers were dispatched to an apartment at 2413 Cusseta Road, on reports of someone shot, detectives said. There they found Grady Lewis Williams dead.
Coroner Buddy Bryan said he pronounced Williams, 54, dead from a single gunshot wound at 12:25 a.m.
Lewis was lying in his driveway, where apparently he had just go out of his car with a Styrofoam container of food, Bryan said. The food lay on the ground, where cats had come to eat it, he said.
Anyone with information on the homicide is asked to contact Cpl. Jason Carden at 706-225-4395 or jcarden@columbusga.org, particularly if they can shed light on Williams’ whereabouts over the past 24 hours.
Bryan said this is Columbus’ 34th homicide of 2019, matching the total recorded here for all of last year.
This story was originally published November 29, 2019 at 9:54 AM.