Based on Lawrenceville Police Division Lt. J. O. Parker, officers have been dispatched to the Saddle Shoals neighborhood round 6:30 a.m. “in reference to somebody who heard a gunshot after which noticed child mendacity on the street.”
Parker stated a 17-year-old suspect approached the 16-year-old and shot him within the head. The sufferer was transported to Northside Hospital Gwinnett.
Detectives have been in a position to find the suspect in the identical neighborhood, about 30 miles northeast of Atlanta, the place the capturing occurred.
He was arrested and has been charged with aggravated assault and possession of a weapon through the fee of a felony, police stated.
“Fees are topic to vary or improve depending on the sufferer’s situation,” Parker stated in an e mail.
The suspect is at present being held on the Gwinnett County Jail.
Parker confirmed the suspect and sufferer each attend Central Gwinnett Excessive College. “The 2 had some form of disagreement previously. They know one another from faculty and had some form of battle lately,” he stated.
