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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And pope Frankie wants to do away with both the death penalty and life imprisonment. For homicidal mad dogs.
It takes a lot to be sent to prison. You would be surprised how many people (of all colors) are let off with a slap on the wrist. The idea that there are a bunch of kids with minor drug convictions wasting away in prison is a meme pushed by those who want to let violent criminals out. Why? Because, of course, minorities commit the most crime, and so the justice system is racist for locking them up. If there were true justice, the color of crime would be too obvious.
Honestly, a black judge would've probably sent them to prison. They know what these ferals are capable of. They're under no illusions. They don't want them roaming the streets where they live.
It's white liberals like Judge Downs who are clueless. From the safety of their gated communities and their children's private schools, they think they're Sandra Bullock, that they'll let these criminals go on to lives of greatness and get a movie made about them.
To be considered an accessory after the fact - book him Dano.
Judge Doris should be impeached, removed from the bench and sent to prison to live the rest of her life among the young, black felons. What a monstrous mistake she made!
This is ad to bring back public hangings. Let’s do it. Pay Per View; the whole bit. Make it a weekly thing in every state. Sell tickets to be there in person to watch them dance on the end of the string like little bobblehead puppets with their eyes bulging out of their heads. No head covers or masks either.
Force the current criminals in prison to watch it so they have an idea what their future looks like if they consider staying on the path they are on.
Post the pictures of the parents of the young offenders like this; if anyone knows who they are. We want to see the losers who didn’t parent their children and teach them basic right from wrong lessens in life.
and they were looking for the perp’s mother and grandmother, no mention of a father.But, father’s don’t matter.I am disgusted as well.
Wonder if she’s still pulling for him now.
Judge Downs has blood on her hands! That’s what I hope she never forgets!!
come on Anne, lets hear it for the boys....
I last visited there in the late 80’s, was a nice place back then.
Indict the judge. It won’t stick, but at least it would cost him some money.
Go easy man. How else are they suppose to get money for clothes, pizza, the newest sport shoes....?
Typical.
FRY THE TWO THUGS, THEY WON’T CHANGE their WAYS.
batwoman, you may STFU!!!!
I mentioned actress Anne Hathaway because she's been getting a lot of press over recent social media posts where she laments that blacks in America are murdered daily at the hands of racist white people and white people need to do something about it.
NOT TO WORRY SOCIAL JUSTICE WILL PROTECT THE PROTECTED CLASS
I hope she’s dragged out of her bed and hacked into a 1,000 pieces.
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