The 15-year-old passenger was also charged with additional offenses of obstructing a police officer and attempting to remove an officer’s firearm, according to the Waycross police statement, which did not release the boys’ names.
Reporters at the scene said Saturday that several bullet holes could be seen in the car into which the children were driving.
Atlanta attorney Gerald Griggs told The Atlanta Journal-Constitution that he was contacted by the Waycross NAACP after Saturday morning’s incident and tagged in the no-viral video.
Griggs, who serves as vice president of the NAACP’s Atlanta chapter, said the organization is seeking the immediate release of officers’ body cameras and making camp tests on the cam, allowing them to conduct their own investigation into the shooting. police can drive.
“I’m very worried that shots were fired while children were involved,” he said. “We are concerned that the level of force was used.”
The GBI said that once its investigation is complete, the findings will be forwarded to the Ware County District Attorney’s Office.
The Waycross shooting party was one of four officer-involved shootings that the GBI responded in less than 24 hours, officials said Saturday.
On Friday night, a Norcross man was shot by police after authorities said he pointed a gun at a Gwinnett County police officer during a domestic dispute at an apartment complex near Norcross.
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The suspect, 47-year-old Ramon Guillen, remains in Grady Memorial Hospital in critical condition, according to the GBI.
And a Johns Creek police officer fired at a woman from the car early Saturday after she reportedly hit two people in the parking lot of a bar and then drove to the officer.
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No one was hit in the incident outside Bliss Bar and Lounge on Medlock Bridge Road, but 30-year-old Yasmine Mbi was arrested at her home on Saturday morning, police said. She is accused of two counts of aggravated assault and one count of hit-and-run, jail records show.
The two women she accused of hitting with her car were taken to hospital. One of them was seriously injured and the other suffered minor injuries, authorities said.
The GBI was also called in to investigate a fatal shooting in which a Georgia State Patrol trooper was arrested Friday night.
According to the GBI, the trooper attempted to stop a Nissan Sentra for a traffic-related crime on Stoney Pond Road in Screven County, which lies about 60 miles north of Savannah on the border with South Carolina.
After a brief pursuit of several county roads, the trooper initiated a PIT maneuver, and landed the car in a ditch. The trooper fired one round, fatally striking 60-year-old Julian Edward Roosevelt Lewis, authorities said.
The Associated Press contributed to this Atlanta Journal-Constitution report.
