A metro Atlanta mother is outraged after the man seen on surveillance footage fatally shooting her son as he mistakenly got into the wrong vehicle was released on bond for a misdemeanor charge.
Police arrested Dericole Daniels, 52, and charged him with voluntary manslaughter for the December 2022 killing of Trayvon Dunnaville after he opened the door of his car, according to WSB-TV.
Surveillance video from the College Park gas station where the shooting occurred showed that Dunnaville’s vehicle, which looked similar, was parked two gas pumps over from Daniels’.
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His pregnant fiancée sat inside waiting for him. He was texting when he walked up to Daniels’ car as the driver shot Dunnaville on Dec. 12, 2022.
Dunnaville’s mother is now trying to understand how a man that killed her son so senselessly bonded out of jail on Monday, April 17.
“He could have locked his doors, or he could have said may I help you or something?” said the man’s mother, who didn’t want to be identified. “He did nothing but shoot.”
Carmella McKenzie had to beg Daniels to stop shooting him, explaining that the 26-year-old mistook his vehicle for theirs. She gave birth to their son in late March. The couple had been together for at least five years before he was killed, according to social media posts.
“And [McKenzie] runs over and says, Don’t shoot him no more. He was at the wrong car,” the victim’s mother told WSB-TV. “He saw my son coming towards him. He was parked like this. So you see him coming.”
Daniels’ release comes as three other shootings over common errors made national headlines.
Two cheerleaders were shot on Tuesday, April 18, after one mistakenly got into the wrong car. The teenager apologized and exited the man’s…
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