A 16-year-old girl was killed and a 16-year-old boy was injured in a shooting outside an Atlanta highschool after a confrontation that began at an unauthorized graduation party.
Bre’Asia Powell was shot dead around 2:30 a.m. Sunday in the driveway of Benjamin E. Mays High School, Atlanta News First reportedciting police and college officials.
An ambulance took her to a neighborhood hospital, where she was pronounced dead.
The boy, whose identity has not been identified, was listed in stable condition with a gunshot wound.
Authorities said youth from around town had gathered for an unauthorized party in the college parking zone, Fox 5 Atlanta reported.
“She was her mother’s firstborn daughter, the princess of her mother’s castle. She was a scholar,” family friend Davida Huntley said of the tragic teenager, in line with Atlanta News First.
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“Bre’Asia has done absolutely nothing. Nothing that would cause it. Being at this party was not the technique to her death,” she said of the rising junior who loved playing volleyball.
“Guns were in the hands of people that didn’t need them, who desired to treat them like Super Soakers [water guns]Huntley said.
“It was an unlucky tragedy that shook a circle of family and friends to the core,” she added, as reported by Fox 5.
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Mayor Andre Dickens, who attended the college where the shooting took place, told reporters that “the young lady was energetic and was scheduled to work for the City of Atlanta for our summer youth employment program from Tuesday.”
He added: “My heart is with each families and definitely with the family of the deceased.”
Police say it continues to be unclear who opened fire and what led to the shooting.
It shouldn’t be known how many individuals attended the event.
Public school principal Lisa Herring expressed her condolences to those affected by the horrific shooting and ensured that students had access to mental health support.
“We recognize that this impact causes trauma,” she said. ABC7 reported.
Town’s school system said in a press release: “In accordance with the Atlanta Police Department, two teenagers were shot during an unauthorized assembly at the top of the driveway to St. Benjamin E. Mays, early Sunday morning.
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“One is dead and one is being treated at a neighborhood hospital. The meeting got here after Atlanta police disrupted a graduation party elsewhere in the community hours earlier.
Ronald Tuck, who lives near the college, said he had fears concerning the shooting.
“My prayer was literally, ‘God help this city when students come out of faculty because there are some who don’t have anything to do,'” Atlanta News First told Atlanta News First.
Homicide officials said police had reason to imagine they were also in highschool age.
A $10,000 reward was offered for information resulting in an arrest in the shooting by calling Crime Stoppers at 404-577-TIPS.