Police arrested six people Wednesday in the shooting death of a man during a Saturday home invasion.
Ceuion English, 23, Anthony Foster, 23, Laqwane Kindred, 26, Trevonuis Williams, 22, and Mercedes Ann Marie Kraft, 17, have been charged with murder and jailed, local media reported citing Columbus police.
Credit: Fox 54 WXTX Columbus
Credit: Fox 54 WXTX Columbus
Another unnamed juvenile is being detained at a youth detention center but may later be charged as an adult, police said, according to news reports.
Cross Henderson, 21, was shot to death Saturday at a home in Columbus.
He was in the house with his brother and a friend when intruders broke in, Muscogee County Coroner Buddy Bryan told The Columbus Ledger-Enquirer.
Officials from the Columbus police department’s SWAT team, sheriff’s officers and Columbus firefighters helped capture the suspects while executing search and arrest warrants, the newspaper reported.
A preliminary hearing is scheduled for later this month. It is unclear whether the suspects had attorneys who could comment on their behalf.
2 other fatal shootings
Two other people were slain over the weekend in Columbus in unrelated incidents, according to news reports.
Jamareion Davis, 13, was killed outside his home Friday after being shot in the chest with a shotgun, according to Bryan.
Dorian Gibson, 50, was shot multiple times in the torso in a parking lot at Warren Williams Homes while trying to break up a fight in her public housing complex, reports said.
Columbus Mayor Skip Henderson addressed the shootings at Columbus’ Martin Luther King Jr. Unity Breakfast on Monday, the paper reported.
“In our tri-cities, we have gone through an unusual amount of violence over the last couple of weeks,” he said. “And I cannot ignore that as we celebrate the life of a man who devoted his energies, his time and his love to nonviolent change.”
— ArLuther Lee of The Atlanta Journal-Constitution contributed to this report.
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