The mass shooting near Atlantic Station, a popular shopping area in Atlanta has been updated to a double homicide after another victim died Wednesday succumbing to his injuries.
A second boy, Kameron Jackson, 15, was in critical condition after the deadly shooting Saturday night and died Tuesday. Atlanta police say Jackson was the sole target of the shooting that also snuffed 12-year-old Zyion Charles’ life on the 17th Street bridge in the heart of the city.
Zyion’s family believes he was bystander who had gotten caught up in the wrong crowd. His mother said she tried to seek help to stop him from being a statistic. Deerica Charles said this week she pleaded with a local police officer just seven days before her son was killed.
“I said, ‘I’m begging you. I’m begging…
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