West Point Police investigating after man found shot, killed near Georgia Welcome Center
A welfare check call has now turned into a homicide investigation after a man was found shot and killed near the Georgia Welcome Center, police said Monday morning.
West Point police officers responded on July 9, 2023, at or about 11:30p.m., to a call for service referencing a welfare check of what witnesses believed to be a person laying in the roadway near the Georgia Welcome Center exit onto 85 northbound.
The officers arrived on scene and found an unresponsive Hispanic male with a single gun shot wound to the chest area. The victim was pronounced deceased at the scene.
The victim was later identified as 39-year-old Juan Cesar Dominguez-Bis of Clinton Township, Michigan.
This is an active and ongoing investigation. If anyone has any information regarding this incident, please call Detective Lockhart from the Criminal Investigation Division at 706-586-8005.
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