BUTTS COUNTY, Ga. — A murder suspect was apprehended early Wednesday after a late night search in Butts County.
The Butts County Sheriff's Office had put out a bulletin on the search late Tuesday evening, and just after midnight said he had been caught.
Sheriff Gary Long said on Facebook the suspect was taken into custody "without incident." He originally described the suspect as a "person of interest" in a domestic related shooting at the Ingles in Jackson.
The Jackson Police Department later identified the victim as 47-year-old Terry Don Crawford, of Jackson. They said he suffered "several gunshots to his upper body." The GBI identified Crawford as the suspect's stepfather.
According to Jackson Police, a shots fired call came in around 6 p.m. on Tuesday from the Ingles at West Third Street in Jackson.
"When JPD officers arrived on scene, they discovered an unresponsive white male lying on the ground, on the east side of the parking lot," the department said. "Witnesses at the scene described the shooter only as an unknown male, dressed in dark clothing that ran from the scene in an eastern direction near the Masonic Lodge, located next door."
The suspect was caught, Jackson Police said, when he "appeared out of the wood line near his residence and surrendered without incident" hours after the shooting.
