Posted on 08/03/2018 1:32:44 PM PDT by Drew68
Police arrested a second suspect Thursday in a fatal shooting outside a north Atlanta country club as new details emerged about the leniency granted in an earlier case to the 17-year-old accused gunman.
Jayden Myrick, who was arrested in the shooting last month, was “the big test case” for reforming juvenile offenders outside of adult prison, Fulton County Superior Court Judge Doris Downs told the teenager during a hearing on March 12, according to a transcript made public Thursday. Downs overruled a prosecutor’s insistence that Myrick was dangerous and a request to revoke his probation for an armed robbery he committed in 2015 at age 14.
Downs told Myrick at the end of the March hearing, “I’m pulling for you.”
“I’ve got your name etched in the back of my head,” the judge said. “I go to sleep at night and I’m wondering where you are and what you are up to … [The prosecutor] says we’ve made the mistake of a lifetime, and I’m hoping we’re right.”
Four months later, Myrick was back in jail, accused of killing 34-year-old Christian Broder, a Washington, D.C., restaurant executive who was in Atlanta for a wedding. Broder, a husband and father of an infant, died about two weeks after the July 8 shooting.
On Thursday, the Atlanta Police Department arrested the second suspect, 19-year-old Torrus Fleetwood, who is accused of driving a stolen 2014 Dodge Charger to the gates of the Capital City Club near Brookhaven, where Broder and three others were waiting for an Uber after leaving the wedding reception. Police said it was Myrick who jumped out, pointed a gun at the wedding guests and demanded their belongings. Broder followed Myrick, trying to negotiate, according to police reports, and Myrick pulled the trigger, shooting him in the stomach.
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Welcome to Buckhead. It used to be an exclusive area but demographics be changin.
Her. Any guesses as to her color?
I guess she’s a black Amish.
They aren’t 21 now did they get a handgun? (sarc)
Do you know who gets raped in prison? White college kids busted selling ecstasy.
Not these guys.
They'll do just fine in the joint, raping white college kids who get busted selling ecstasy.
“Most likely they will have the upper hand in prison.”
Really? I’m not so sure we’re done letting them out.
She is blonde, pretty.
Ooops, but this is why I don’t vote for women judges.
Anne is pretty to look at, but dumber than a box of hammers!!!
The coddling of murderous juvenile thugs in this country is outrageous. Let’s throw away our crying towels for these thugs and execute them for killing their victims.
She’s an idiot white bitch, obviously thinks it’s her calling to save poor wayward black boys.
Lemme guess... Taxpayers funded a MARTA* expansion from the 'hood? This is what usually happens.
*Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority aka "Moving Africans Rapidly Through Atlanta"
Etch his name on her forehead
I’m sure Myrick will do serious time, finally.
Buckhead was invaded 25 years ago, had to close a business due to the increasing vibrant nature of the area. Culminated in the Ray Lewis debacle.
Yes I remember the Lewis incident well. I used to party in Buckhead with my friends all the time til it started to change. Now I never go there for any reason.
I have personal experience with this judge and have been in her courtroom.
I will not comment exactly as would like as I will get banned.
A horrible, smug, individual. She may be white but she hates her own color.
I’d sentence those two baboons to matching .45 holes between their evil eyes.
Dont forget Have You Seen Julie Love ...
She is not pretty. That pic must be photoshop. She is ugly to the bone.
Unf******* believable. The Judge should serve time with the Thug Murderer.
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