15-year-old boy dies after shooting that left 12-year-old dead near Atlantic Station - WSB Atlanta

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ATLANTA, Ga. — Multiple sources person confirmed to Channel 2 Action News that a teen progressive successful the combat that near a 12-year-old dormant adjacent Atlantic Station has died.

Channel 2′s Audrey Washington learned that 15-year-old Cameron Jackson died Tuesday nighttime aft spending respective days successful captious information astatine the hospital.

Jackson and Zyion Charles, a 7th-grader KIPP Soul Academy, was among the six young radical changeable aft a ample combat broke retired connected the 17 Street Bridge conscionable extracurricular of Atlantic Station connected Saturday night.

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Police said a ample radical of minors got into a quality soon aft they were escorted retired of Atlantic Station for curfew violations and unruly behavior.

Police said that Charles was with the suspects who started shooting astatine different teen. It’s unclear if Jackson was the intended target.

“Everyone progressive yesterday was a teen and we recovered 3 handguns from this location. Handguns successful the incorrect hands leads to tragedy,” Chief of Police Darin Schierbaum said.

On Wednesday, Atlanta constabulary released video showing the radical of teens they are searching for. Police said the judge that 2 of those teens were the shooters and said they would similar to place the remainder of the radical arsenic witnesses.

Police said the teen successful the achromatic and yellowish sweatshirt and a lad successful a bluish sweatshirt with achromatic and achromatic penning connected the beforehand fired the gunshots that killed some Jackson and Charles.

The video shows the teens get connected a MARTA bid astatine the Arts Center Station Stop and thrust backmost location similar thing happened.

“They besides look to beryllium celebrating, making gestures and talking astir the shooting,” constabulary said.

The 4 different victims of the shooting person been treated and released.

Family remembers 12-year-old killed successful shooting adjacent Atlantic Station

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