KILLING IN THE COUNTRY: The Death of Trevorius Thomas
18.05.12
For four days, his body lay face up on some irises near a patch of wild daffodils just off the porch of a mud-colored, Depression-era house.
More of a shack now, the house is being plowed under by nature, shrouded in privet, all but invisible to passers-by.
The crumbling dwellings last resident, a woman in her 80s, had lived there on Zebulon Road for ages with no running water. She moved away more than a decade ago. In the remains of the front yard, theres a smashed Sylvania television set, a 1978 model, near the spot where the young man from Macon bled out.
The homestead is wreathed in vines, blended into the brush and rolling timberland of southern Monroe County. Hardwoods, pines and pastures stretch due south for roughly two and a half miles, down to the tip of Lake Tobesofkee.
Subdivisions and a handful of million-dollar estates have sprung up in recent years. Some who move there do so to escape urban ills. They tolerate the deer eating their flowers and take refuge in the wide open.
Source: Macon Telegraph (blog)