4-year-old Griffin boy dies after being shot; charges against mom, man upgraded to murder

GRIFFIN, Ga. — A 4-year-old Griffin boy has died after being shot over the weekend.

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Police said the incident happened at an apartment on Poplar Street. The child was airlifted to a hospital in Macon and died on Wednesday night at around 7 p.m.

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Charges against the boy’s mother, Jamacia Lyons, 24, and a man that was in the home at the time, James Lee Evans, 20, have been updated from cruelty to children to 2nd-degree homicde.

Evans had been out on bond for gang activity and theft by receiving in a previous incident.

Police have not said who fired the gun or if the shooting was accidental. They are working to determine if the child shot himself.

Channel 2′s Christian Jennings was at the apartment complex, where a neighbor said she saw the mother sitting on the stairs holding her child and hysterical.

“She kept saying, ‘My baby’s dead. My baby’s dead,’” the neighbor said.

Jennings learned that the district attorney’s office had filed a motion for Evans’ bond to be revoked on Nov. 20, but that motion was still pending and he hadn’t been before a judge yet.

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The child has not been identified. At least three children have been shot to death and five more have been injured by gunfire in metro Atlanta this year.

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