Alexis Hill, Dollar General store manager in Columbus, Georgia shot dead after argument over $1.58 ‘bun’ purchase by Jerome Willis. Customer shot dead in police confrontation after fleeing scene.
A Dollar General store manager and mom of three was shot dead following an alleged altercation over buns earlier this week.
Alexis Hill, a 44 year old Dollar General store manager in Columbus, Georgia, was shot and killed on Tuesday June 23, 2026, over an alleged altercation regarding a $1.58 purchase.
At the time of the tragedy, the discount store worker was ringing up a customer for a purchase of hamburger buns for a total of $1.58 just after 10 a.m. when she was gunned down.
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The customer — identified as 33-year-old man Jerome Willis — handed Hill, 44, two crumpled $1 bills to pay for the buns and, as she straightened out the cash, he stepped aside and then pulled out a gun and fatally shot her in the head according to the Muscogee County Coroner’s Office.
‘We got it on video,’ Columbus Police Chief Stoney Mathis said, ‘and it’s just a cold-blooded murder.’
Willis fled the scene and was later shot and killed during a confrontation with police officers at about 11:40 a.m. The pursuit left one officer and a police dog wounded, WTVM reported.
Dollar General store manager and shooter did not know each other
Officers with the Columbus Police Department (CPD) located Willis in a parking lot and gave him ‘verbal commands,’ with which he ‘did not comply,’ according to a press release from the Georgia Bureau of Investigation (GBI), which is investigating the incident.
The CPD officers then released the K-9 to apprehend Willis, who shot a gun at the dog and pointed the weapon at the other officers at the scene. Columbus police then returned fire, firing toward the suspect and hitting him ‘multiple times,’ the GBI said. Willis was pronounced dead at the scene.
According to Hill’s family members, she and Willis did not know each other, WKRC reported.
‘She’d make you laugh. She loved that job, and she worked her entire butt off for that job,’ Hill’s friend told WTVM.
Hill is survived by her three children, as well as two grandchildren, according to a GoFundMe created on her behalf to raise money for funeral expenses.
The shooting remains under investigation by the Georgia Bureau of Investigation.
