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 prosecutors 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, Im pulling for you.
Ive got your name etched in the back of my head, the judge said. I go to sleep at night and Im wondering where you are and what you are up to [The prosecutor] says weve made the mistake of a lifetime, and Im hoping were 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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Isn’t there a law against that? We need more gun laws, lol!
“...Broder foolishly approached Myrick...”
The media makes it sound like it’s the victim’s fault for getting shot. I wonder if there is a quote from the shooter? “So yeah - I done robbed them wallets. And I’m walkin’ away, and this cracker comes after me - I thought he’s gonna hit me. So I done shot in self-defense.”
Why are crimes like this never called racism?
Well, it was a foolish mistake. Broder likely thought he was dealing with a lucid, rational human being who would be happy to keep the cash and cellphone and return his driver's license which had no value. Because, of course, black armed robbers are mostly nice kids who just need a little money for school supplies and nutritious lunches, or maybe help pay auntie's rent. They can be reasonable people, right?
It was a fatal mistake. Then again, people have been shot for doing much less, or even nothing at all.
I'll bet she's even MORE smug from now on.
If there were justice in our justice system she would be impeached and removed from office.
>>The coddling of murderous juvenile thugs in this country is outrageous. Lets throw away our crying towels for these thugs and execute them for killing their victims.<<
In any truly civilized society these thugs would have been tried, convicted, and publicly hanged within 10 days of the commission of their crime. But that’s precluded by the greed of the members of the legal and judicial community who enrich themselves by prolonging the adjudication of such cases.
>>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.<<
Anyone who wants to see where this trend is leading need only review the true history of the RSA since the end of apartheid. Analogous to collective suicide.
Bring these super-predators to heel...
Isnt that illegal for them to have a gun? Didnt they follow the law like the guy they killed? Why didnt the victim just call the police? So many questions.so confusing.
If there were justice in our justice system she would be on Dancing With The Stars.
Dancing the Tyburn Jig.
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