Another Senseless Killing
A Dollar General store manager and mom of three is dead following an alleged altercation over buns. Alexis Hill was ringing up a customer for a purchase of hamburger buns for a total of $1.58 at a Dollar General location on Victory Drive in Columbus, Ga., on Tuesday morning, June 23, when he shot and killed her, WKRC and WTVM reported, citing officials.
The customer — identified by authorities as 33-year-old Jerome Willis — handed Hill, 44, two crumpled $1 bills to pay for the buns and, as she straightened out the cash, he stepped aside and then pulled out a gun and shot her, the outlets reported, citing the Muscogee County Coroner's Office. Willis fled the scene and was late r shot and killed during a confrontation with police officers at about 11:40 a.m. that left one officer and a police dog wounded.
Officers with the Columbus Police Department (CPD) located Willis in a parking lot and gave him “verbal commands,” with which he “did not comply,” according to a press release from the Georgia Bureau of Investigation (GBI), which is investigating the incident.
The CPD officers then released the K-9 to apprehend Willis, who shot a gun at the dog and pointed the weapon at the other officers at the scene. Columbus police then returned fire, firing toward the suspect and hitting him “multiple times,” the GBI said. Willis was pronounced dead at the scene. Along with the police dog, one CPD officer was “shot during the incident,”
A Dollar General store manager and mom of three is dead following an alleged altercation over buns. Alexis Hill was ringing up a customer for a purchase of hamburger buns for a total of $1.58 at a Dollar General location on Victory Drive in Columbus, Ga., on Tuesday morning, June 23, when he shot and killed her, WKRC and WTVM reported, citing officials.
The customer — identified by authorities as 33-year-old Jerome Willis — handed Hill, 44, two crumpled $1 bills to pay for the buns and, as she straightened out the cash, he stepped aside and then pulled out a gun and shot her, the outlets reported, citing the Muscogee County Coroner's Office. Willis fled the scene and was late r shot and killed during a confrontation with police officers at about 11:40 a.m. that left one officer and a police dog wounded.
Officers with the Columbus Police Department (CPD) located Willis in a parking lot and gave him “verbal commands,” with which he “did not comply,” according to a press release from the Georgia Bureau of Investigation (GBI), which is investigating the incident.
The CPD officers then released the K-9 to apprehend Willis, who shot a gun at the dog and pointed the weapon at the other officers at the scene. Columbus police then returned fire, firing toward the suspect and hitting him “multiple times,” the GBI said. Willis was pronounced dead at the scene. Along with the police dog, one CPD officer was “shot during the incident,”
