Fatal shooting erupts at Georgia party with over 100 teens

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• Friends, family gather for funeral for Atlanta music icon Rico Wade
• Fourth suspect in Douglasville party shooting arrested after three others identified
• Sheriff: Tips led to arrests after deadly Douglasville party shooting, but callers didn't want $40K reward
• h arrest made in mass shooting at Georgia teen house party
• Fulton Co. lawmaker files lawsuit against DA Fani Willis’ office, county commissioner, ethics board

“These kids are so young to be committing such horrible crimes,” the sheriff said at the time. Investigators believe the shooting may have been a gang retaliation incident, with Pounds noting that the victims - 14-year-old Ajanaye Hill and 15-year-old Samuel Moon, were "not the intended targets." "I told my community and the public that I was going to catch these guys that committed this terrible crime in my county, and I worked along with my investigators to do exactly that," Pounds said. "I was there during the takedown part. ... I was there when the cuffs were put on them." Pounds said this is still an ongoing investigation and more suspects could be arrested.

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Authorities said that there were over 100 teenagers at the party off Sitka Drive and Talkeetna Road. AJ’anaye "AJ" Hill, 14, and Samuel Moon, 15, were identified as the teens who died in the shooting, which also injured seven other teenagers. Kingston Cottman, 17, will face the same charges as the three previous suspects arrested Tuesday, according to the Douglas County Sheriff's Office.

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Authorities say the more than 100 teenagers were at the party off Sitka Drive and Talkeetna Road. Sheriff Tim Pounds also announced a $20,000 reward for information leading to the suspects in the case.

Sheriff: Tips led to arrests after deadly Douglasville party shooting, but callers didn't want $40K reward

Six others were said by sheriff's officials to have been critically injured but now are likely to recover; one has been released from a hospital. Los Angeles County Supervisor Janice Hahn tweeted that the shooting comes just after the community hosted a gun buy-back event nearby. Paramedics rushed four victims to a local hospital, while a fifth victim was driven by a private party, police said.

Four victims were listed in stable condition, and one was listed in critical condition. At least one man was found in a crashed car with a gunshot wound on 36th Street, a spokesperson from the LAPD confirmed to KTLA. The frantic scene broke out around midnight on Saturday in the Adams-Normandie neighborhood in the 2400 block of Congress Avenue, according to updated information from Los Angeles Police Department officials. Capt. Jon Mauney with the Douglas County Sheriff’s Office said officers were called to Talkneetna Road and encountered a crowd of people on the roadway, in the woods, and in vehicles. Douglas County investigators are still working the case, but they have made no arrests. This entire community has been affected by this deadly shooting.

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The two dead have been identified as 15-year-old Samuel Moon and 14-year-old Aj’anaye Hill. Investigators are still looking for whoever pulled the trigger. The sheriff announced a $20,000 reward for information leading to an arrest. "They weren’t invited, so they didn’t know the address. They just camped out and waited on the children to leave the party." Also download the 11Alive News app and sign up to receive alerts for the latest on this story and other breaking news in Atlanta and north Georgia. "I am saying this also as a parent of children the same age as those precious babies that we had to see dead lying in the street," she said.

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Samuel Moon, 15, and Aj’anaye Hill, 14, were shot and killed Saturday night when a gunman opened fire on attendees. "Not even two minutes after that we heard gunshots," neighbor Lashondra Martin told FOX 5. "So, I immediately ran outside, saw a little girl in the streets and just wanted to make sure it was none of my children." A Douglasville mom said her daughter's Sweet 16 birthday party quickly turned into a nightmare when someone pulled out a gun, killing two partygoers and injuring six more. Neighbors tell 11Alive it was a chaotic scene with the wounded scattering into other yards.

They said somebody had been shot in the head right here and another boy was limping because he had been shot in the leg. Williams was located in Albany, where he attended school, according to deputies. Michael Arthur Williams, 21, was arrested in Albany and brought back to Douglas County, where he was seen being escorted into the jail by Sheriff Tim Pounds late Wednesday evening. She could not make sense of the call she got about the shooting because she had just dropped "AJ" off at the party. Parents wrote to Channel 2 Action News that someone opened fire on the party, killing two teens and injuring six others. “It feels like someone just took my heart and ripped it out,” Samuel's mother Beverly LaFleur said.

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Tahkel Marquise Beverly-Smart, a 21-year-old resident of Dallas, Georgia, was arrested Saturday in connection with the shooting at a house in Douglasville, Douglas County Sheriff Tim Pounds announced. The sheriff released dashcam footage showing the kids were asked to lay down on the ground while officials worked to secure the scene. FOX 5 spoke with the mother who threw the Sweet 16 party for her daughter's birthday. Officials said well over a hundred teenagers were in attendance.

Police described the suspects’ vehicle as a silver sedan. No description of the suspects was immediately available. The victims are all between 20 and 40 years old, the station reported, citing officials. No further updates on the victims’ conditions were immediately available.

"It is absolutely devastating that we are having this conversation again," said Douglas District Attorney Dalia Racine in a press conference last week. "This is an all-out assault on our young people, on our children, on our babies, on our community." DOUGLASVILLE, Ga. — Four people are facing charges after violence broke out at a teen's birthday party earlier this month, leaving two teens dead and seven other people injured.

Two additional gunshot victims were taken by private vehicle to medical facilities and had non-life-threatening injuries, officials said. A final victim with upper-body gunshot wounds was discovered when the vehicle he was driving hit a brick wall minutes after the gunfire, not more than a quarter mile away from the violence, Johnson said. Ages and genders for the victims were unavailable, according to the L.A. Los Angeles officials spoke at an afternoon news conference in Carson on Saturday. A fifth person has been arrested in connection to a shooting last month at a Sweet 16 party in Douglasville sent a panic into a huge crowd of teens and left two innocent bystanders dead.

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A replay can be watched of the conference in the video player below. DOUGLAS COUNTY, Ga. - Two Douglas County families are broken and say their lives will never be the same, after a mass shooting left two teenagers dead. Neighbors told 11Alive it was a chaotic scene with the wounded scattering into other yards. He said it was a suspected gang incident and that the two victims killed were "innocent bystanders." The shooting took place on March 4 at a party off Sitka Drive and Talkeetna Road in Douglasville.

Pounds said Coleman was arrested in Cobb County and the McDowells were arrested in Douglas County. At the Wednesday morning news conference this morning, Pounds showed a 9 mm handgun that was found on one of the suspects when they were arrested. “Two children were deceased on the scene, one in the middle of the roadway and another on a driveway at a house in a cul de sac. The sheriff said he anticipated further arrests, as well as more charges - including participation in gang activity - against the three suspects already in custody. And by Wednesday afternoon, a fourth suspect was arrested and identified as 17-year-old Kingston Cottman.

Deputies previously said a confrontation led to the shooting. At least 100 teenagers were in attendance at the party at a home off Sitka Drive and Talkeetna Road, they said. Seven other teens were also shot, according to authorities. The sheriff's office held a news conference Wednesday at 10 a.m.

Aside from the victims killed, seven others were injured, the sheriff's office said Monday - one more than had previously been reported. In the first minutes of Saturday, sheriff's deputies, who serve Carson under contract, rushed to a residential neighborhood just a few blocks south of the city's well-known Ikea retail location. They were summoned after dispatchers handled multiple calls about people felled by gunfire at a Carson home. In LaGrange, police arrested and charged 15-year-old Brandon Harrison Jr. with the shooting death of 16-year-old Nasir Truitt at the South Bend Skate Park on Saturday. Officials say the shooting escalated after an argument.