A cost of malice homicide has been added to the checklist of prices being introduced towards a 17-year-old suspect within the case, mentioned Lawrenceville Police Division Lt. J. O. Parker.
The suspect had beforehand been charged with aggravated assault and possession of a weapon in the course of the fee of a felony.
Officers had been dispatched to the Saddle Shoals neighborhood round 6:30 a.m. Tuesday “in reference to somebody who heard a gunshot after which noticed child mendacity on the street,” Parker mentioned.
Detectives had been in a position to find the suspect in the identical neighborhood, about 30 miles northeast of Atlanta, the place the taking pictures occurred.
The suspect is being held in Gwinnett County Jail with no bond, jail data present.
The suspect and sufferer each attended Central Gwinnett Excessive Faculty, Parker mentioned.
“The 2 had some form of disagreement prior to now. They know one another from faculty and had some form of battle just lately,” he mentioned.
