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On August 2, 2007 at approximately 3:30 a.m. a 911 call was received from a pay phone at the corner of Napier Avenue and Ayers Road. The male caller reported that a man had been shot at Hidden Lake Apartments in a black vehicle. When officers arrived they found 21-year-old Mark Joseph (M.J.) Lyons in the drivers seat of a black 1992 Acura Integra in front of building S of Hidden Lake Apartments. Lyons had been shot in head and was pronounced dead at the Medical Center of Central Georgia.
Anyone with information on the caller or the shooting death of Mark Joseph (M.J.) Lyons on August 2, 2007 at 180 Hidden Lake Court should contact Detective Fred Carmichael at 478-803-2481 or Macon Regional Crimestoppers at 1-877-68CRIME.
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