Teens charged with murder

Two teenagers were arrested and charged with felony murder and armed robbery in the fatal shooting of a 27-year-old man on the 500 block of Rutland Drive early Tuesday morning.

Dontavis Terrell Lovett, 16, was arrested, while Jacari Antonio Page, 17, turned himself in to authorities a day after the shooting on April 30. 

According to Dublin Police Chief Keith Moon, officers responded to 511 Rutland Drive after receiving an alert from the city’s gunshot detection system at about 2 a.m. Tuesday, April 29. Upon arrival, officers saw a man, later identified as Anthony Jamar Coley, in the backyard with gunshot wounds.  

Responding officers were told there was a man in the backyard. They saw Coley lying in the driver’s side area of a car. An officer approached and moved the man, who was unresponsive, to the ground. An officer retrieved a medical kit from his patrol car and began observing the wounds and caring for Coley until the Dublin Fire Department and EMS arrived on the scene. 

Coley was taken to Fairview Park Hospital and pronounced dead by Laurens County Coroner Richard Stanley at 3:05 a.m. Coley was transported to the Georgia Bureau of Investigation Crime Lab in Atlanta for an autopsy. 

The DPD Criminal Investigation Unit and the GBI are investigating the incident. The investigation is active and ongoing. 

Anyone with information is asked to contact the GBI’s regional investigative office in Eastman at (478) 374-6988 or the DPD at (478) 277-5023. 

Anonymous tips can be submitted by calling 1-800-597-TIPS (8477), online at https://gbi.georgia.gov/submit-tips-online, or by downloading the See Something, Send Something mobile app.

After the investigation is complete, the case file will be given to the Dublin Judicial Circuit District Attorney’s Office for prosecution.