Police charge suspect in 22-year-old’s fatal shooting in southeast Columbus

Columbus police have charged another local youth in the Sept. 3 fatal shooting of 22-year-old Jaelon Latrevion Langley.

Accompanied by his mother and defense attorney Anthony Johnson, Jamez Xavier Starr, 21, surrendered to police at the Columbus Public Safety Center at 1:50 p.m. Monday, according to his arrest report. Charged with murder, aggravated assault and using a gun to commit a crime, he’s to have a preliminary hearing at 9 a.m. Thursday in Columbus Recorder’s Court.

Starr chose not to speak with police about the case after his arrest, officers reported.

Police called at 6:31 p.m. to a shooting at an apartment on Kings Mountain Court found Langley wounded in the backyard, investigators said. Medics rushed him to Piedmont Columbus Regional, where he was pronounced dead by an emergency room doctor.

Kings Mountain Court is off St. Marys Road near Columbus’ border with Fort Benning.

Anyone with more information on the shooting may contact Sgt. Thomas Hill at 706-225-4345 or thill@columbusga.org, or call the police homicide unit at 706-225-3161.

Tim Chitwood

Columbus Ledger-Enquirer

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Tim Chitwood is from Seale, Alabama, and started as a police beat reporter with the Ledger-Enquirer in 1982. He since has covered Columbus’ serial killings and other homicides, following some from the scene of the crime to trial verdicts and ensuing appeals. He also has been a Ledger-Enquirer humor columnist since 1987. He’s a graduate of Auburn University, and started out working for the weekly Phenix Citizen in Phenix City, Ala.