GBI: 2 taken into custody after man found shot to death near Winder park

WINDER, Ga. (CBS46) -- The Georgia Bureau of Investigation arrested 2 people in connection to the shooting death of a man found near a Winder park.

18-year-old Brantavious Sims of Winder and 17-year-old Jayquan Crawford of Statham were taken into custody on April 18.

On April 11, the Bartow County Sheriff’s Office responded to a person shot call after two motorists found a 19-year-old man shot to death near City Pond Park.

Winder police responded to the scene at around 5 p.m. Monday. When officers arrived, they found the man, later identified as Lane Michael Bullard, lying beside a car on a dirt road near the perimeter of City Pond Park.

Investigators determined that the location of the scene was just outside the city limits and the police department turned the scene over to the Barrow County Sheriff’s Office who requested assistance from the Georgia Bureau of Investigation.

Sims was taken into custody at his home on April 13 without incident and Crawford turned himself in on April 14 at the Detention Center, according to the sheriff’s office.

Sims was charged with murder and possession of a firearm during the commission of a felony. As for Crawford, he was charged with party to the crime of murder.

Both Sims and Crawford were transported to Barrow County Detention Center and were denied bond.