A Baldwin County grand jury recently declined to indict Micah Brown, the man accused of fatally shooting a Buffalo Wild Wings manager in the Milledgeville Mall parking lot last year. The grand jury “no billed” the case, basically meaning that Brown’s legal troubles from the case are behind him.
Multiple media outlets reached out to District Attorney T. Wright Barksdale following the grand jury decision.
Barksdale wouldn’t go into much detail with the media. Then, on Wednesday, a WMAZ/ Channel 13 reporter received the royal media treatment from the district attorney, who provided footage of the incident and also went into detail.
Essentially, according to Barksdale, it began with an argument between Nytavious Stone, a manager at the restaurant, and an employee, William Brown, who is Micah Brown’s twin brother. A skirmish ensued in the back parking lot, and William Brown got the best of Stone, who then went to his car and retrieved a handgun. Footage provided to WMAZ shows Stone inside of the restaurant with a pistol clearly in his hand.
“(Stone) was overheard making threats while having the pistol, and at some point he leaves the restaurant,” Barksdale told WMAZ.
Stone then walked into the parking lot, which is where Micah Brown enters the picture. Words were exchanged between Stone and Micah Brown, and a shootout ensued. Stone ultimately was shot “nine or 10 times,” according to previous court testimony. Micah Brown, who was not injured, always contended that Stone drew first and always claimed self-defense.
A lack of video footage in that part of the parking lot made the investigation more difficult for the district attorney.
“We cannot tell you who pulled their gun first,” Barksdale said.
Meanwhile, William Brown has been locked up since the day of the Buffalo Wild Wings shootout and currently is being housed at Jenkins Correctional Facility. He originally received a seven-year sentence in 2022 after pleading guilty to possession of a firearm by a convicted felon. William Brown then spent the period of time between May 2022 and October 2023 in prison before being released and allowed to serve the remainder of the sevenyear sentence on probation. However, a Superior Court judge revoked William Brown’s probation and order him back to prison last September. Brown still has more than two years left on his original 2021 sentence.
Following the Buffalo Wild Wings incident, William Brown was charged with one count of aggravated assault, essentially for getting into a fight with Stone, which is when his probation was revoked. The district attorney has yet to present William Brown’s case to a grand jury.
Meanwhile, the Brown twins’ mother also was arrested for tampering with evidence following the incident. Her case also is being prepared for the grand jury.