Atlanta, GA
Atlanta officials call for tightened curfew after deadly shooting of 13-year-old boy
“How did y’all even get these weapons?” neighborhood shocked after teen shot, killed
An worker at a southwest Atlanta enterprise situated close to the crime scene the place a 13-year-old boy was shot and killed informed FOX 5 he doesn’t perceive how one thing this tragic might occur to somebody so younger.
ATLANTA – A violent weekend and the lethal capturing of a 13-year-old boy has Atlanta leaders seeking to tighten up curfew guidelines within the metropolis.
Saturday evening, police discovered 13-year-old Deshon Dubose shot a number of occasions on the sidewalk on the 3300 block of Martin Luther King Jr. Drive.
Earlier than the capturing, officers found that the boy could have been at Cascade Household Skating earlier that evening and left the institution in some unspecified time in the future. He was discovered shot down the identical highway.
“Teen evening has at all times been an issue, it’s nothing new,” a spokesperson for the Atlanta Police Division informed FOX 5. “I simply hate it got here to this.”
Dubose’s homicide drew a robust response from Atlanta councilwoman Keisha Waites.
Waites is behind a proposal that may tighten the present curfew for teenagers 17 and below. She says there is a risk the change might have saved the lifetime of the 13-year-old.
At present, the coverage is in place from 11 p.m. to six a.m. on weekdays and midnight to six a.m. on weekends. Dubose was shot shortly after 11 p.m.
Waites needs the curfew to as an alternative be from 8 p.m. to six a.m. on weekdays and 9 p.m. to six a.m. on weekends.
“If we will not take weapons off the streets, the least we will do is take our youngsters off the streets,” Waites stated in a press release. “As I’ve stated earlier than, this isn’t a panacea, nevertheless it’s one thing that may assist save lives.”
Final month, Waites stated the town would come with exceptions that exist below the present curfew for “constructive actions” like faculty or non secular actions that happen after 8 p.m.
The Public Security Committee of the Atlanta Metropolis Council will meet Monday afternoon to debate the decision.
The total council will not convene till Monday, Feb. 6.