Act Daily News
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In the span of three weeks, shootings in Atlanta have killed 4 youngsters between the ages of 11 and 16, and Mayor Andre Dickens stated Sunday the current development is unacceptable.
“A week before Christmas, families should be preparing to celebrate,” Dickens wrote in a press release. “Instead, we have parents in Atlanta doing what no parent should ever have to do: laying their children to rest.”
Dickens wrote these previous few weeks “have shown all too clearly that Atlanta is not immune from this unacceptable trend.”
The most up-to-date capturing came about Saturday night at an house advanced when two teenagers had been killed and three others had been injured, in keeping with Deputy Chief Charles Hampton Jr. with the town’s police division.
Hampton stated the capturing appeared to start out as some type of dispute on social media that escalated into gunfire between two teams. One group of people got here to the house advanced with weapons. However, it was the second group at that location who opened hearth on the primary group of people, in keeping with Hampton.
The victims on this capturing had been recognized as two boys – ages 14 and 16 – who had been useless when police arrived on scene, Hampton stated. The injured victims included an 11-year-old boy, a 15-year-old lady and a 15-year-old boy, who had been all taken to a neighborhood hospital.
Police are at present interviewing a number of people to see what their involvement was within the capturing.
“This should be a time where we all should be getting ready for the holidays, but we have at least two families that will be planning funerals,” Hampton stated.
This follows the capturing at Atlantic Station, a preferred procuring district, on November 26 that left two boys useless. Those victims had been recognized as Zyion Charles, 12, and Cameron Jackson, 15.
Police stated that capturing occurred after a “group of juveniles” had been escorted off Atlantic Station property for “unruly behavior” and violating the retail district’s curfew. The group then moved to seventeenth Street, the place the dispute occurred and gunfire erupted. Zyion died on the scene. But it was Cameron, who succumbed to his accidents a number of days later, who was the meant goal of the capturing, police stated.
Two boys, ages 15 and 16, had been arrested in reference to this capturing. Each of them face two homicide expenses together with expenses of aggravated assault and felony gang exercise, Hampton stated.