Kaneza Owens spent her final night video recording the man who was threatening to kill her. Then, as police arrived at her home, Treyvon Walker shot her twice in the chest while her seven-year-old daughter slept upstairs.
On Tuesday, November 10, 2026, after a jury had been selected and just before trial, Walker pleaded guilty in Bibb County Superior Court to Voluntary Manslaughter, Aggravated Assault, and Possession of a Firearm by a Convicted Felon. He was sentenced to 50 years, with the first 35 to serve in the Georgia Department of Corrections.
Owens and Walker had been in a violent relationship, and Owens had decided to end it. Walker refused to accept her decision. In text messages before the shooting, he told her, “U don’t want me wit s#*t or to have s#*t n u won’t either, Nothing !!!!!” and “You’ll feel it later.”
Late on May 4, 2023, Walker showed up at Owens’s home with a gun and refused to leave, even after being told to go multiple times. Throughout the night and into the early morning of May 5, he told Owens and two other people in the home that he was going to kill her and then kill himself, saying he was “ready to risk it all.” Owens recorded much of the night, capturing Walker holding the gun, pointing it at her, and repeatedly threatening to kill her.
When police arrived, Walker tried to run out the back door, yelled “that’s the police,” and fired two shots into Owens’s chest. Owens died from her injuries. Immediately afterward, Walker posted on Facebook: “Real Life Just Threw My Life Away Just Shot My Girl.” He was captured on May 9, 2023, with the gun he had used to kill Owens.
At Tuesday’s plea hearing, Owens’s mother told the Court, “I don’t know what to say. For someone to say he loves you, he wants to build a life with you and take care of you. Then for him to kill you when your child is upstairs is something I just don’t know. I don’t understand.”
“Kaneza Owens did what so many people tell victims to do. She decided to leave, and she was killed for it,” said Macon Judicial Circuit District Attorney Anita Howard. “This year alone, there have been six homicides in Bibb County connected to domestic violence. Behind every one of those numbers is a family that has lost someone they love. If you or someone you love is experiencing domestic violence, please contact your local law enforcement or the National Domestic Violence Hotline at 1-800-799-7233. You do not have to face it alone, and help is available.”
This case was prosecuted by Assistant District Attorney Amber R. Cook and Assistant Deputy Chief District Attorney Alveta Watkins.
