Ryshaun Montay Bigelow

MOULTRIE — Police investigating two Tuesday afternoon shootings that occurred less than an hour — and about a quarter mile — apart had not determined on Wednesday whether they were connected.

There was a surreal quality to having someone fire off another five rounds in such close proximity to more than a dozen officers at the scene of a slaying that had occurred just 55 minutes earlier.

Ryshaun Montay Bigelow, 23, was shot multiple times at the intersection of First Avenue and Seventh Street Southwest, and was pronounced dead at that location. Moultrie police were called to that area, located about 50 yards from the fencing of Riverside Manufacturing, at about 3:10 p.m.

Bigelow was found in the roadway and his body remained there for about three hours while officers from multiple law enforcement agencies examined the shooting scene. The shooting was the first homicide in Moultrie in 2016.

At 4:05 p.m. five more shots were heard in the 100 block of Fourth Street Southwest adjacent to the north side of Woodmen of the World Park. It was about a quarter mile from the site of the first shooting and roughly the same distance from the Moultrie Police Department.

The Georgia Bureau of Investigation said on Wednesday the victim in that shooting was 25-year-old Darian Williams, who also received multiple gunshot wounds. Williams was airlifted Tuesday night to a Macon hospital and was listed in fair condition on Wednesday afternoon, the agency said.

The area where Williams was shot was also the scene of a fatal shooting almost four years ago.

Anthony Tyshaun Keith, 27, was shot March 29, 2012, at an apartment complex at the intersection of Fourth Avenue and Fourth Street. Police said he walked or ran a short distance after being shot multiple times. No one has been charged in that slaying.