Investigators have released video of three suspects accused of fatally shooting a 16-year-old boy at an apartment complex in northwest Atlanta on July 10.
Atlanta police responded around 4:15 p.m. to the Reserve at Hollywood apartments on Hollywood Road in the Scotts Crossing neighborhood, the site of at least two violent incidents since late May.
When officers arrived, they found the teenager suffering from several gunshot wounds. Police later identified him as Maurice Weems.
He was taken to the hospital in critical condition but died from his injuries, police said.
No arrests have been made and a motive remains unclear, but police have released security footage from an apartment complex of three people they’ve labeled as suspects.
Credit: Atlanta Police Department
In an interview with Channel 2 Action News, Weems’ grandmother said the teen had called her the day he was killed and asked for a ride. She was at work and couldn’t help him.
“It’s my deepest regret right now,” said the woman, who asked not to be identified by the news station. “He called me that morning and I wish I would’ve picked him up because he was calling out for help. Two or three hours later, I got the phone call.”
It was the second fatal shooting at the Reserve at Hollywood apartments in recent weeks.
On June 3, officers were called to the complex and found 21-year-old Jacquez Harris dead behind a building after being shot several times. Then, during Memorial Day weekend, a 61-year-old woman was arrested after she allegedly stabbed a 63-year-old woman in the arm.
Investigations into the three incidents are ongoing, police said.
Weems was tragically touched by violence at the same apartment complex several years ago, according to Channel 2. His maternal grandmother was strangled to death there when he was just 9. Weems lived with her at the time and was the one who found her dead.
“We do want justice. We hope for justice. We need justice. And we’re asking for justice,” Weems’ paternal grandmother told Channel 2. “But we also know God has his timing too, so we’ll wait.”
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