ATLANTA — There are nonetheless a number of questions on what occurred outdoors a household leisure heart in Southwest Atlanta.

The Fulton County Medical Examiner’s workplace instructed Channel 2′s Larry Spruill that 13-year previous DeShon DuBose was shot and killed outdoors the Cascade Skating Middle on Saturday evening.

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Sunday evening, Atlanta police are nonetheless making an attempt to determine what occurred outdoors the Cascade Skating Rink.

It was round 11:24 Saturday evening, when officers responded to the car parking zone of Cascade Household Skating off of Martin Luther King Jr. Drive in Southwest Atlanta, for a capturing.

Youth and crime skilled, Bruce Griggs is with ‘Save Our Sons’ mentoring program and he offers with At-risk teenagers. He stated the violence locally is getting out of hand.

“One other one,” stated Griggs.

He stated what’s occurring in our nation, in our metropolis, is out of hand.

“It’s received to be addressed as a public well being situation. These younger persons are out and committing mindless crimes. They’ve steady entry, to weapons,” stated Griggs.

Channel 2 Motion Information was on the scene of one other lethal capturing Sunday morning round 10:30.

Police stated 4 individuals had been shot at an condo complicated at 3132 Buford Freeway. They discovered one man useless contained in the condo and three different males had been shot.

Griggs stated fixing the gun violence requires much more work, than what’s being carried out, “That is Nationwide Mentoring month. I’m not knocking the basketball applications. I’m not knocking the chess applications, however these usually are not the applications that’s going to alter these violent behaviors.”

Griggs stated it’s important to attain the kids the place they’re and at a younger age.

“We’ve received to get to them as early as 5 or 6 years previous.”

As for the capturing of the 13-year previous, Griggs thinks “I’m virtually sure, that the perpetrator of this crime, is below 15 years previous,” stated Griggs.

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Atlanta Metropolis Council Member Andrea Boone launched an announcement about DuBose’s:

“This can be a somber time for our neighborhood as a younger boy’s life was tragically lower brief. One of these violence is very irregular for this space. The skating rink has in some ways been a secure haven for households. It has been that means for many years as a result of Cascade Household Skating and the Alexander household have poured love and care into this treasure of Southwest Atlanta. It’s a true staple of the Adamsville neighborhood and the town of Atlanta. To see any such violence is deeply disturbing. Any lack of life is felt in our neighborhood, however for such a younger boy to fall sufferer to this right here, it is vitally tragic.”

Councilmember Keisha Waites additionally launched an announcement and stated if they’ll’t take weapons off the streets, no less than take the kids off of the streets.

“If we will’t take weapons off the streets, the least we will do is take our youngsters off the streets,” she stated. “If we had an enforced curfew, there’s a chance we may have saved our metropolis’s most up-to-date teenage homicide sufferer.”

Councilmember Keisha Waites proposed a curfew following the November homicide of 12-year-old Zyion Charles; because the physique rely of teenage gun victims rises, Waites continues to push for the Metropolis Council to guard the youths. Councilmember Waites says she is optimistic the decision will make it out of Public Security Committee on Monday.

“If we will’t take Weapons off The Streets, the least we will do is take our youngsters off the streets. As I’ve stated earlier than, this isn’t a panacea, however it’s one thing that may assist save lives.”

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