09/03/2026
A white Georgia sergeant booked a man on Friday, and that same black suspect is accused of sho*ting him in his patrol car four nights later.
Sgt. Chris Fisher of the Warm Springs Police Department had just finished an unrelated traffic stop near the Meriwether Country Inn around 11:57 p.m. on Sept. 1.
GBI says a black 2026 Chevrolet Silverado pulled alongside his cruiser and the driver opened fire. Fisher, a husband and father of two, was pronounced de*d at the scene.
The agency named 23-year-old Jimmie Lee Steverson of Warm Springs as the suspect. Court records show Fisher himself had arrested Steverson around 1 a.m. on Aug. 28 on felony counts that included ma*****na possession, possession of a g*n during the commission of a crime, and obstruction. Steverson posted bond and walked.
A Blue Alert went statewide. About 12 hours later, Anderson County deputies in South Carolina stopped a car on I-85. Steverson was a passenger. GBI says he had a self-inflicted g*nshot wound. He was taken to a hospital and d*ed.
City Councilman Michael Bishop told 11Alive he believes the sho*ting was payback for that Friday arrest. Warm Springs is a tiny west Georgia town.
The man Fisher put in cuffs was back on the street in time to find him sitting in a parked patrol car.
That is what a bond decision cost.
