A Bibb County man was convicted for two unrelated 2022 homicides in Macon Thursday, according to District Attorney Anita Howard.
Brian Greene, who was 25 years old at the time, was convicted of shooting and killing two strangers eight days apart. Investigators believe Greene killed one victim in an attack on a member of the LGBTQ+ community, and the other during a robbery on a first date.
“These type of senseless killings have no place in our community,” Howard said in a news release. “No one should have to endure this type of fear and pain and trauma.”
In the first incident, Eugene Stevens was sitting in a car on his first date with a woman at an apartment complex on Northside Drive on March 23, 2022.
Greene tried to rob them at gunpoint, according to the district attorney’s office.
“Stevens tried to thwart the robbery, and in the course of the struggle, Greene shot him three times,” the district attorney’s office said.
His date called 911 and administered chest compressions, but he died.
The woman was a “key witness” in the case, the district attorney’s office said in a news release.
A separate shooting occurred on March 31, 2022, at a Family Dollar on Napier Avenue, the district attorney’s office said. Elijah Rasheed and two friends bought ice to celebrate a work promotion. As they pulled out of the parking lot, Greene fired shots at their car, which hit Rasheed. His friends drove him to a local hospital where he later died.
“Investigators believe the group of men were targeted by Greene because they were members of the LGBTQ+ community,” the district attorney’s office said.
Greene was found guilty of murder, aggravated assault and possession of a firearm during the commission of a felony.
He will be sentenced at a later date, according to the district attorney’s office.
Evidence was presented during a four-day jury trial by Senior Assistant District Attorney Michael Parrish, Assistant District Attorney Thomas Williams and Lauren Brock, a Mercer University School of Law third-year law clerk.
“When we have witness and victim cooperation like we did in this case, we have the greatest chance of holding people accountable for their dangerous actions,” Howard said.
