Two indicted for the murder of Navaneetbhai Patel

Several indictments were handed down on January 28 including the ones for Roy Herman Ford, Jr. and Alvin Bernard Dunn, both of Macon, for their involvement in last year’s murder of Navaneetbhai Patel. ` 

Sunday, December 15, 2019, around 5:30 p.m., officers with the Warner Robins Police Department were dispatched to the Citgo Express Stop located at 700 Russell Parkway in Warner Robins in reference to an armed robbery. Upon their arrival, officers found that 49-year-old Patel, husband of a store employee, had been shot. He was transported to Houston Medical Center where he later died of his injuries.

Ford (age 19 at the time of the crime) was indicted on the charge of malice murder for unlawfully and with malice aforethought, causing the death of Patel by shooting him with a handgun.

Additionally, both Ford and Dunn (age 36 at the time of the crime) were indicted on a felony murder charge for causing the death of Patel, irrespective of malice, while in the commission of a felony by shooting him with a handgun. Both men were also indicted on the charge of armed robbery with the intent to commit a theft and unlawfully taking U.S. currency that was the property of Citgo Express Stop convenience store from the immediate presence of Prachip Patel by the use of a handgun.

Finally, both Ford and Dunn were indicted for violation of Street Gang Terrorism and Prevention Act—being associated with the Crips, a criminal street gang—by unlawfully participating in criminal gang activity through the commission of the offense of felony murder with the intent to obtain, earn, maintain, and increase their status in said gang.

In other January 28 indictments, Nicobi Matrell Barnett, Michael Dalton Maddox and Devon Dekell Pritchett, all of Warner Robins, were each indicted for an incident that took place on or about October 26, 2019. Each were charged with one count of armed robbery with the intent to commit a theft for taking Nike sneakers and an Xbox One game system, property of Brandon Yerby, by the use of a handgun.

Joshua McColumn, Riley Hamm and Michael Dalton Maddox, all of Warner Robins, were indicted with armed robbery for a crime committed on or about November 4, 2019 wherein the intent was to commit a theft when they used a handgun to take Percocet pills from Christopher Fizer. The three were also indicted on the count of robbery by sudden snatching with the intent to commit theft for taking the aforementioned pills from Christopher Fizer. A third indictment was handed to McColumn for aggravated assault upon Fizer with a deadly weapon for pointing a handgun at Fizer and placing him in reasonable apprehension of immediately receiving a violent injury.

Dallas James Davis, Shaquez Tyrek Jackson, and Jacob Wayne Eagy (all of Warner Robins), Aaron R. West and William Dale Ussery (of Centerville), and Francisco Calvillo (address not provided) were each indicted on one count of armed robbery with the intent to commit a theft for unlawfully taking U.S. Currency from Brandon Yerby by the use of a handgun. In addition they each received indictments for one count of robbery by force for the same criminal act.