Suicide. That’s the word from the Baxley Police Department’s news release. The driver, Mark Edward Weatherington, age 24 with a Lithonia, Georgia address, died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head. Apparently, the driver stopped the car in front of Common Ground where he then committed suicide. Afterwards, his vehicle traveled a good distance, leaving the road and striking a mailbox and some bushes before knocking down a power line. The body was released to the coroner’s office for further forensic investigation, and his vehicle was impounded pending further forensic processing by the GBI.
NOTE: The above is an update to this story.